Nothing Is So Obvious That It's Obvious.

I've Never Seen Myself As A Documentary Filmmaker. I See Myself As A Filmmaker, Period, And I Am Interested In Drama As Well As In Documentary.

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

My Stuff Always Starts With Interviews. I Start Interviewing People, And Then Slowly But Surely, A Movie Insinuates Itself.

The Perfect War Is Started For Obscure Reasons, Is Hopelessly Murderous, And Accomplishes Nothing.

If Someone Tells You That George Bush Is Not The 43rd President Of The United States, They Might Be Engaged In Wishful Thinking, Or Denial, But If They Make That Claim, It's Either True Or False! And You Can Assess That, Regardless Of Whether There's An Omniscient Narrator, Or An Unreliable Narrator, Or It's Shot In Vérité, Or It's Manipulated, It's Agitprop, Whatever! It Makes No Difference! It's A Style!