I Always Say Be Humble But Be

Obviously You Have A Responsibility - One Would Like To Think There Is Such A Thing As Ethics In Filmmaking.

Narrative, Fiction Filmmaking Is The Culmination Of Several Art Forms: Theater, Art History, Architecture. Whereas Doc Filmmaking Is More Pure Cinema, Like Cinema Verité Is Film In Its Purest Form. You're Taking Random Images And Creating Meaning Out Of Random Images, Telling A Story, Getting Meaning, Capturing Something That's Real, That's Really Happening, And Render This Celluloid Sculpture Of This Real Thing. That's What Really Separates The Power Of Doc Filmmaking From Fiction.

Theres Something Unique About The United States, A Sense Of Individual Rights And Freedoms, And A Sense Of Social And Civic Responsibility That We Contributed To So Much Of The World. We Lost That Mission In The 1980s And 1990s, When We Entered A Gilded Age, And The Culture Of Individualism Became A Culture Of Avarice.

Im Fascinated By Failure, And Im Fascinated By Finality. Shakespeares Historical Plays Are More Universal Than His Comedies Because They Relate To The Finality Of Life. Without Finality, Life Would Not Be Beautiful.

Generally In My Films Like Hearts Of Darkness Or Picture This, I Try Not To Make Myself A Presence In The Film.