The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.

I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.

There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. And that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. They're not written, not rehearsed. It's spontaneous, extemporaneous material. People

The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.

This uses a lens system, which I have used for years in various different ways, but I've never used it in the context of an interview. This is the very first time that I've done that. It's a lens called The Revolution, so it allowed me to interview Elsa [Dorfman] and actually operate the camera. Well one of the cameras, because there were four cameras there.

There's this crazy thinking that style guarantees truth. You go out with a hand-held camera, use available light, and somehow the truth emerges.

One of the strengths of my interviews is that I really, honest to God, have no idea what people are going to say.