The Smarter People I Know Declined To

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.

Twenty To Thirty Years Ago, Who Was Making Documentary Films? Nobody. Well, Relatively Few People. It Was An Art Form That Had Limited Theatrical Distribution, If Any At All. Some Television Distribution, But Relatively Small Audiences Regardless. And In The Intervening Years It's Become More And More Popular With A Lot Of People.

Truth Exists Independent Of Style. It Involves All Kinds Of Issues. Properly Considered, It's A Quest, A Pursuit. To Say That Vérité Is More Truthful Than Something That Is Narrated Is Just Misplaced. Completely Wrong. And The Fact That People Still Talk About It As Though They're Really Talking About Something... It Puzzles Me Greatly. A Moment Of Reflection About It Tells You That It Makes No Sense!

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 Was Assumed That You Can't Touch Evangelical Christians. "oh, They're The Republican Right. Stay Away From Those People. Don't Even Try To Talk To Them." Well, What's Interesting Is That There Were Evangelical Christians Who Were Voting For Kerry. There Were Right-to-lifers Who Were Voting For Kerry. And It's Interesting To Listen To The Reasons Why. To Ignore That Segment Of The Electorate Is Moronic. Particularly If You Don't Know Who Those People Are, Or What Their Concerns Are.