But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made.

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

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.

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

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

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

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

What is it that angers us?... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph has been manipulated, but that we have been manipulated by the photograph.

I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

They feared you, and love can’t exist when there’s that much fear.

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with ‘welcome’ written on it.

I had a feeling that Ben Lancaster had just tattooed himself onto my soul and the thing about tattoos? They were painful to remove.

Who can say that he is not everything?

I'm always going to try to win with a positive mindset.

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.

You can't give until you have.

I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.