Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.

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

You can't really trust anybody who doesn't talk a lot, because how would you know what they're thinking?

I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.

I've done interviews in one day that went on for fifteen, sixteen hours. And at a certain point, the control over what they're saying breaks down; it becomes different. It becomes really powerful, and for me, real. It becomes out of control.

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.