I studied law before I became a filmmaker, and I actually have a great belief in the justice system and the rule of law. I think it's the thing that …

- Nick Broomfield

Cocaine and crack are essentially the same thing. Cocaine is a middle-class drug. Crack is a poor person's drug, which carries a felony conviction fo…

- Nick Broomfield

I think if people give you their time and they haven't got any money then they deserve to get something. Not so that you bribe them to say things tha…

- Nick Broomfield

I've spent a lot of time in L.A., it's always reminded me a bit of Jo'burg, which is a deeply segregated city. And L.A. is really like an apartheid c…

- Nick Broomfield

I think it's a problem if you don't compensate people that have got no money, because I really feel you're exploiting them.

- Nick Broomfield

Music documentaries are hard to tell, but I think they're an amazing vehicle to look at racism, our attitude to sex, the way we judge drugs. There's …

- Nick Broomfield

For some reason, politically there's a distinction between cocaine and crack. Cocaine is not a felony conviction because it's used by middle class an…

- Nick Broomfield

You know so many documentaries now are very carefully scripted before you start, and then people are sort of put in chairs which are beautifully lit,…

- Nick Broomfield