[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she's well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet her and then there was some benefit where she was taking pictures.

There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

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

I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I had trouble finishing things.

Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.

This uses a lens system, which I have used for years in various different ways, but I've never used it in the context of an interview. This is the very first time that I've done that. It's a lens called The Revolution, so it allowed me to interview Elsa [Dorfman] and actually operate the camera. Well one of the cameras, because there were four cameras there.