Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade.

It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.

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.

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

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

Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.