Nicolas Noxon

On his childhood and early influences; on the first time he saw television

On his first professional jobs in St. Louis; on his relationship with director John Korty; on moving to Los Angeles

On working with producer David Wolper; on working on the syndicated show Biography

On the editing facilities at Wolper Productions; on working on the syndicated show Biography; on working with documentarian Irwin Rosten

On the biggest challenges in producing Biography; on the documentary series Hollywood and the Stars

On What a Way to Go: An Extravaganza in the Making; on "The Great Directors" episode of Hollywood and the Stars, and the notable directors he interviewed for it; on the documentary series Men in Crisis

On the documentaries Prelude to War and The Epic of Flight; on the advent of National Geographic's  television specials

On his first film for National Geographic: "The Voyage of the Brigantine 'Yankee'"

On Orson Welles doing narration for National Geographic Specials; on National Geographic's "Dr. Leakey and the Dawn of Man"

On National Geographic's "Yankee Sails Across Europe"; on working at MGM; on NBC's GE Monogram Series

On the GE Monogram Series documentaries "Once Before I Die" and "Wildfire"; on his relationship with filmmaker Irwin Rosten; on Burgess Meredith and E. G. Marshall as documentary narrators

On MGM documentaries In Search of the Lost World and Childhood: The Enchanted Years; on the feature documentary "Birds Do It, Bees Do It"; on MGM in the late 1960s and early 1970s

On "America at the Movies"; on returning to National Geographic Specials, which had moved from ABC to PBS

On National Geographic's "Treasure!"; on National Geographic's "The Great Whales" and "The Sharks"

On National Geographic's "Animals Nobody Loves" and "This Britain"; on the logistics of shooting National Geographic Specials on location; on danger he's faced while shooting documentaries

On filming in foreign countries; on the syndicated series, Sports Illustrated; on Ripley's Believe It or Not

On Secrets of the Titanic; on National Geographic's The Explorers: A Century of Discovery; on making documentaries for the ABC subsidiary, ABC/Kane

On the National Geographic Society's split from KQED, and his role in National Geographic setting up an L.A. office; on National Geographic Specials moving from PBS to NBC

On National Geographic's "Cyclone!"; on how documentary-making has changed over time

On National Geographic's "Survivors of the Skeleton Coast" and "Jewels of the Caribbean Sea"; on his hatred of directing

On then-upcoming projects; on the process of producing a documentary

On writing for documentaries and what makes documentaries work; on the editing process for his documentaries

On the use of music in documentaries; on how he knows when a documentary is complete

On the changes in documentaries on television over time; on whether documentaries belong on network television; on the power of television and its failings, and its then-current state

On his ideas about the then-future state of television; on advice to aspiring documentarians; on the fact that the field of filmmaking has gotten more and more competitive

On objectivity and ethics in documentaries; on the closing of National Geographic's L.A. office

On his mentors; on how he would like to be remembered; on his pride in what his work accomplished in terms of ecology and environmentalism