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

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning.

Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.

It's a kind of honour when I see how many people are imitating the style of how I make films.

I've done interviews in one day that went on for fifteen, sixteen hours. And at a certain point, the control over what they're saying breaks down; it becomes different. It becomes really powerful, and for me, real. It becomes out of control.

I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I had trouble finishing things.