If people are portrayed as monsters, we become disconnected from them, and to me that is not remotely interesting..

The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of what police call "noble cause corruption," the belief that because you are dedicated to ….

As a filmmaker, I always took my inspiration from a filmmaker named Marcel Ophüls, who said, "I always have a point of view, but the trick is showing….

In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children..

I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds..

Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide..

The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight..

The Barack Obama Administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined. That's a staggering record. And it com….

I'm still an Apple person, but let's just say the magic aura is gone. In a way that was a sad thing to lose, but I feel better for it. It's just a ma….

Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edis….

Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people like Jobs..

No one likes documentaries..

You see the natural progression of what happens when the executive gets power and then a new executive comes in. The new executive doesn't say, "Oh, ….

With every project I start out on, there's no footage. It's always a big slog to find the footage..

Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James Brown recently; and….

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers..

I think one of things that Steve Jobs, in his own funny way, encouraged us to remember with those "Think different" posters of Gandhi and Rosa Parks ….

In a busy world, even as information is moving so rapidly, we have to learn who to trust in that regard even as we ourselves have to become more crit….

I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission..

What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes..

Steve Jobs was one of the first people to understand that the computer wasn't just a tool, but that it could be an extension of ourselves, and he pos….