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You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice.

When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.

I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker.

There's something magical about a home run. It almost violates the space of the stadium. It's a game of the imagination in some ways. Baseball.

It would be hard to go to your neighbor and say the things people say on the Internet without getting punched out or having your tires slashed.

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

The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.

Wikileaks in its essence is a publisher, pure and simple. They were very much in the same position as 'The New York Times' and 'The Guardian.'

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

The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there.

Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.

Even with a villain, you don't want him just to be some pockmarked punchbag.

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

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

Many people have this memory of traditional TV documentary-making that aims to portray pure reality, and I just don't see that as the only option.

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

No one likes documentaries.

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

'24' glamorizes torture. I don't think there's any other way of putting it.

It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.

Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy.

The Bush administration will go down in history as the Torture Team.

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

It's difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That's a job best left to critics.

I'm a good learner. I can dig in. I knew nothing about mark-to-market accounting when I started the 'Enron' film.

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

There are many people, including me, who admire the original mission of WikiLeaks.