What's great about documentary genre, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of "documentary."

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.

...the depth or humaneness of our love depends on the wideness of our souls.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

The best way to vanquish your enemies on the Internet? Ignore them.

You can’t chain your heart forever, one day or another you are going to open it for someone and (s)he is going to piss inside it.

I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

The Deer don't dineWhen a Wolf's about,And the PorcupineSticks his quill-points out.

I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.

President [Barack] Obama has been an unbelievable divider of this country, whether it's rich and poor; white and black.

Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses.

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.