I Am Profoundly Skeptical About Our Abilities

You Can Talk About A Caption Underneath A Photograph Being True Or False, Because There Is A Linguistic Element. You Can Claim That A Photograph Is A Picture Of A Horse Or A Cow, But It Is The Sentence That Expresses The Claim, Which Is True Or False, Not The Photograph.

I Believe We Have Two Ideas About How Movies Are Made In Our Heads. Idealizations. Platonic Ideals. One Of Them Is Of A Movie That Is Completely Uncontrolled, And Another Is A Movie That Is Completely Controlled. The Auteur Theory Vs. Cinéma Vérité.

Right Now, We Live In Bad Times In This Country, And The Fact That There Are Filmmakers Addressing Political And Social Issues Is To Me A Good Thing.

What's Great About Documentary Genre, It Seems To Me, Is That It Can Be Experimental Filmmaking. You Have A License To Do A Lot Of Diverse Things Under The Umbrella Of "documentary."

Part Of The Mystery Of Any Given Photograph Is The Fact That It Was Taken At A Certain Time And In A Certain Place And Time Keeps Moving On. A Photograph Might Be A Moment In Time Preserved, But The World Continues To Change Around It.