“It’s time for the whole world to know about it.”

"This has been in the news since 1947, since the purported crash of a UFO in Roswell, New Mexico, and it has not let up. There's been five or six years of very few news breaks or sightings and then suddenly there's an outbreak of all kinds of sightings. 

In the early years I was a little bit skeptical, I'm the kind of person who needs to see something to believe something, but as I've gotten older I've really come to believe the believers. And I've made movies about them, and this is maybe the most realistic movie I've ever made about people and about governments that really believe something has been happening here for the last eight decades, and it's time for the whole world to know about it."

"What I've learnt is that I love telling stories, no big new truth for me there, but also, approaching 80, I'm kinda inexhaustible, I love that, I love that I can still do this job – you're stuck with me."