Forty Years Ago This Country Went Down

I Think We Get Into All Kinds Of Difficulty By Saying Photographs Should Be Taken In A Certain Way Which Guarantees Their Veracity. I Think That's A Slippery Slope To Hell.

Interviews, When They Are Just Simply An Exercise In Hearing What You Want To Hear, Are Of No Interest. And Many, Many, If Not Most Interviews Have That Character. The Interviewer Who Comes In With A List Of Bullet Points They're Going To Address One After The Other. Interviews, Properly Considered, Should Be Investigative. You Should Not Know What You're Going To Hear. You Should Be Surprised.

The Imprimatur Of Truthfulness Does Not Guarantee Truthfulness. People Should Know Better. But They Don't.

Long, Long Before I Became A Filmmaker I Was Talking To Killers. Filmmaking Was An After Thought.

Truth Exists Independent Of Style. It Involves All Kinds Of Issues. Properly Considered, It's A Quest, A Pursuit. To Say That Vérité Is More Truthful Than Something That Is Narrated Is Just Misplaced. Completely Wrong. And The Fact That People Still Talk About It As Though They're Really Talking About Something... It Puzzles Me Greatly. A Moment Of Reflection About It Tells You That It Makes No Sense!