I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.

My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.

People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.

I probably wouldn't have done [ Fred Leuchter story] if it was just a story about an executioner or a holocaust denier, but the combination of the two elements was irresistible. So yeah, I find it strange that there are so many people out there now.

Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.