I remember on page one of The New York Times the article about Fred Leuchter. The heading was "Can Capital Punishment Be Humane" and it was the story about an electric chair repairman and execution machine designer. And then buried in the back of the paper was the fact that Fred Leuchter had also been involved in holocaust denial.

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

What's interesting is that Citizen Kane was meant as an anti-fascist/anti-capitalist melodrama and for Donald Trump it becomes just another kind of misogynistic claim that misses the point.

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

Philip Glass once told me, "They can always copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you're going to do."

The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].

I'm one simple way I think I've succeeded was capturing Elsa [Dorfman]. There's something about Elsa, her personality, and her work that I believe is there.