I actually felt diminished by watching [Donald Trump's]. If this is what discourse has become in America, who even wants to know about it? It's just too demoralizing and unsettling.

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

They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.

[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.

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.

There's a line I love in Conan The Barbarian where someone says, "That used to be another snake cult, now I see it everywhere." That's certainly true of documentaries. I wouldn't say it's ubiquitous, but it's become close to ubiquitous. It's everywhere.

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