You can't really trust anybody who doesn't talk a lot, because how would you know what they're thinking?

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

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

I like to think that I differ from other interviewers in the sense that I hide my agenda more successfully, and I'm more open to hearing stuff that is surprising and unexpected. That I'm actually involved in an investigation, through monologue, at times.

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

Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.

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.