The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.

Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.

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

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

You can't really trust anybody who doesn't talk a lot, because how would you know what they're thinking?

I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it? Movies operate from a really disingenuous premise, that people are heroes. I know a lot of people and have had an opportunity over the years to observe them. Are they heroes...? Let's put it this way. Advertising tries something simpler and more believable: Products as heroes. I guess the idea is: When all else fails, put your faith in conditioner.

What's great about documentary genre, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of "documentary."