I felt like the universe was tapping me on the shoulder saying, "You're the guy who has to tell this story because nobody else is."
Joe BerlingerWhat you hope, what you're trusting the filmmaker to do, is to capture the emotional truth of the situation.
Joe BerlingerI don`t know the facts surrounding Andrew Jarecki`s work. I think it`s a triumph of television. But it does raise troubling issues that I think we as a documentary community, you know, need to address.
Joe BerlingerAny documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual literal truth of an event.
Joe Berlinger