"I've had people accuse me of being responsible for reenactment television, for infotainment television … The reenactments have been widely imitated, but the use of graphics in the Thin Blue Line, the use of close-ups of words, or parts of an actual document, is also something that has been imitated widely. It's now seen — and I could be wrong about this. I could have my history of the documentary confused and reinterpreted by myself in a self-serving way, I'm not sure — but I believe my use of these close-ups was something that's unusual and originates with Thin Blue Line. So I like to think of it as not the convention, but something that's come to be imitated widely. Even by myself."