Those Who Cannot Condemn The Past Repeat

What Is It That Angers Us?... We Have Been Tricked. In Essence, We Have Been Lied To. The Problem Is Not That The Photograph Has Been Manipulated, But That We Have Been Manipulated By The Photograph.

I Believe That We Face Incredible Obstacles In Our Attempts To See The World. Everything In Our Nature Tries To Deny The World Around Us; To Refabricate It In Our Own Image; To Reinvent It For Our Own Benefit. And So, It Becomes Something Of A Challenge, A Task, To Recover (or At Least Attempt To Recover) The Real World Despite All The Impediments To That End.

There's A Line I Love In Conan The Barbarian Where Someone Says, "that Used To Be Another Snake Cult, Now I See It Everywhere." That's Certainly True Of Documentaries. I Wouldn't Say It's Ubiquitous, But It's Become Close To Ubiquitous. It's Everywhere.

It's So Much Easier To Make A Movie About Someone Who Is So Likeable That You Just Want To Get Out Of The Way.

Maybe Today I Would Call Fred Leuchter And There Would Be Two Or Three Other Documentary Filmmakers Interested In His Story Simply Because Of The Exposure.