I used to live in New York City, then when my son was two years old we moved to Cambridge Massachusetts and we've been there ever since. My son is now twenty-nine years old, so we've been up there for a while.

What's great about documentary genre, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of "documentary."

It's so much easier to make a movie about someone who is so likeable that you just want to get out of the way.

It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

In the case of The Thin Blue Line, I was surprised actually by many things. I was shooting down in Texas where the actual killer David Harris lived and I interviewed the town cop. He described these guys as being David Harris' partners in crime and even though they had criminal records and had committed crimes, they sued me! More often than not, the insurance company that protects you against this type of lawsuit will settle it with cash and contest it in a court of law.

Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.