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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.

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.

Writing Is A Form Of Talking, Although Writing Is Such An Odd Thing In And Of Itself. People Go About It In Such Different Ways.

You Can Think Of My Films As Cautionary Tales, But You Might Even Think Of Them As Despairing Tales, Because At Least In A Cautionary Tale, You Have This Idea That By Listening To The Story You Can Assure A Better Outcome. Whereas I'm Not At All Convinced That's The Case. In Fact, If Anything, I'm Convinced That It's The Opposite.

I Used To Work As A Private Detective Years And Years Ago. And My Boss Gave Me This One Very Simple Piece Of Advice About Trying To Figure Out Who To Interview First In Any Investigation. His Recommendation: Always Pick The People Who Were Fired. Pick The People Who Are Pissed Off.