You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least in a cautionary tale, you have this idea that by listening to the story you can assure a better outcome. Whereas I'm not at all convinced that's the case. In fact, if anything, I'm convinced that it's the opposite.

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.

Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.

In the case of The Thin Blue Line, I was surprised actually by many things. I was shooting down in Texas where the actual killer David Harris lived and I interviewed the town cop. He described these guys as being David Harris' partners in crime and even though they had criminal records and had committed crimes, they sued me! More often than not, the insurance company that protects you against this type of lawsuit will settle it with cash and contest it in a court of law.

The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.