Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.

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.

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

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

Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.

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.

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.