Nothing Is So Obvious That It's Obvious.

You Can Ask Yourself, If A Film Makes A Claim, Is The Claim True Or False? Having Said That, A Style Of Presenting Material Doesn't Guarantee Truth. There's This Crazy Idea That Somehow You Pick A Style, And By Virtue Of Picking The Style, You've Provided Something That Is More Truthful. It's As If You Imagine That Changing The Font On A Sentence You Write Makes It More Truthful.

The Chance That Any Given Sentence Is A Lie, Rather Than A Truth, I Think, Is Fairly Great. An Intentional Lie, A Self-deception, A Misconception - There Are Lots Of Categories Of Untruth, Not One Grab Bag. And Hotographs Can Reveal Something To Us, And They Can Also Conceal Things.

In The Case Of The Thin Blue Line, I Was Surprised Actually By Many Things. I Was Shooting Down In Texas Where The Actual Killer David Harris Lived And I Interviewed The Town Cop. He Described These Guys As Being David Harris' Partners In Crime And Even Though They Had Criminal Records And Had Committed Crimes, They Sued Me! More Often Than Not, The Insurance Company That Protects You Against This Type Of Lawsuit Will Settle It With Cash And Contest It In A Court Of Law.

The Proper Route To An Understanding Of The World Is An Examination Of Our Errors About It.

Recently It's Become Much To My Surprise, Something That Does Happen. For Example, I Used To Get Almost All Of My Stories, And It's Probably Still True, From Newspapers. Primarily From The New York Times. No One Ever Really Thinks Of The New York Times As A Tabloid Newspaper And It Isn't A Tabloid Newspaper. But There Is A Tabloid Newspaper Within The New York Times Very, Very Often.