The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim.

Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how confused we can become about what is real.

The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.

War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning - even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops

The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."

Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know what someone has done, and it doesn't involve hurting them or doing anything to them beyond that. It's just delivering the message that their crime has been noted not just by its victims, because the victim might be dead, but by another who has a different moral view and will challenge the perpetrator's view.

My films are as much concerned with truth as anything in vérité. Maybe more so.