If you go in thinking that you’re smarter than everyone else, you want in a learning very much. If you go in thinking, “I’d sure like to understand this better,” you end up doing precisely...

Early on, I got very nervous — I thought I had taken on the wrong assignment. I remember thinking, ‘You just signed on to make a film about accounting’ — that’s like Rule No. 23b...

I think myself and a lot of other documentary directors owe a debt to fiction filmmaking. The key was to follow the characters and let the narrative be your guide, without getting distracted by other...

I’m delighted to get this award.

It’s a very complicated story. It still is, even as the trial approaches. My job was to let everyone in on what was going on. With these types of stories, you can get lost in...

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who’s watching the trial.