I've Had People Turn Me Down. Not

It's Really Hard To Know Why Certain Artists Become Famous And Others Don't.

People Think In Narratives - In Beginnings, Middles And Ends. The Danger When You Edit Something Too Severely Is That It No Longer Makes Sense; Worse Still, It Leaves People With The Disquieting Impression That Something Is Being Hidden.

A Lot Of The Distinctions That We Make Between Drama And Documentary Are Spurious. We're Deeply Confused About These Issues. About The Difference Between The Two, About Where Documentary Ends And Drama Begins.

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.

This Uses A Lens System, Which I Have Used For Years In Various Different Ways, But I've Never Used It In The Context Of An Interview. This Is The Very First Time That I've Done That. It's A Lens Called The Revolution, So It Allowed Me To Interview Elsa [dorfman] And Actually Operate The Camera. Well One Of The Cameras, Because There Were Four Cameras There.