I Used To Say That Interviewing Others

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.

Everything Is A Reenactment. We Are Reenacting The World In The Mind. The World Is Not Inside There. It Does Not Reside In The Gray Matter Of The Brain.

Finding Truth Involves Some Kind Of Activity. As I Like To Point Out, Truth Isn't Handed To You On A Platter. It's Not Something That You Get At A Cafeteria, Where They Just Put It On Your Plate. It's A Search, A Quest, An Investigation, A Continual Process Of Looking At And Looking For Evidence, Trying To Figure Out What The Evidence Means.

I've Done Interviews In One Day That Went On For Fifteen, Sixteen Hours. And At A Certain Point, The Control Over What They're Saying Breaks Down; It Becomes Different. It Becomes Really Powerful, And For Me, Real. It Becomes Out Of Control.

I Gave Someone A Perverse Argument Not So Long Ago About Why Advertising Is Better Than Movies. You Want To Hear It? Movies Operate From A Really Disingenuous Premise, That People Are Heroes. I Know A Lot Of People And Have Had An Opportunity Over The Years To Observe Them. Are They Heroes...? Let's Put It This Way. Advertising Tries Something Simpler And More Believable: Products As Heroes. I Guess The Idea Is: When All Else Fails, Put Your Faith In Conditioner.