Brian McGinn quotes:

It's hard any time people are sitting down and looking at you across a camera and saying, "I believe that you guys will tell my story faithfully." That's getting to the core principle of being a journalist or a documentarian where people trust you with their stories.

Everyone had so much to say.

That's what happens when you're making a movie, you find yourself really loving all these people sitting across from you.

Being nonconfrontational allows people to feel like they can say anything they want.

I think that the key to any interview is allowing people to feel comfortable enough that they forget they're being interviewed.

The real battle is in choosing in the edit room. It's in how you contextualize information.

With the rise of the reality show, everyone thinks they can be a celebrity, or that it would be a positive to be a celebrity, or that everyone who's in the news is a celebrity, and I think that there are a lot of people who don't choose to be on the front page, and yet they're still there.

The idea of celebrity is becoming more and more appealing to people.

The way we as a world consume stories - and sometimes people - is a phenomenon that we're seeing much more of now.

Of course, you can never really know if someone is fully revealing himself to you or not, so all we can go by is our own gut feelings.