It's Really Hard To Know Why Certain

If You Asked Me What Makes The World Go Round, I Would Say Self-deception. Self-deception Allows Us To Create A Consistent Narrative For Ourselves That We Actually Believe. I’m Not Saying That The Truth Doesn’t Matter. It Does. But Self-deception Is How We Survive.

I Remember On Page One Of The New York Times The Article About Fred Leuchter. The Heading Was "can Capital Punishment Be Humane" And It Was The Story About An Electric Chair Repairman And Execution Machine Designer. And Then Buried In The Back Of The Paper Was The Fact That Fred Leuchter Had Also Been Involved In Holocaust Denial.

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.

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.

I Never Intended To Be A Documentary Filmmaker. I Think I Became A Documentary Filmmaker Because I Had Trouble Writing, And I Had Trouble Finishing Things.