I've always loved [Elsa Dorfman] work. I've loved her and her work is so much an expression of her. One of the reasons to make the film is to expose Elsa, hopefully, to a wider audience.

All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

Recently it's become much to my surprise, something that does happen. For example, I used to get almost all of my stories, and it's probably still true, from newspapers. Primarily from The New York Times. No one ever really thinks of The New York Times as a tabloid newspaper and it isn't a tabloid newspaper. But there is a tabloid newspaper within The New York Times very, very often.

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

Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a lot of people.