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 think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.

There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.

There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. And that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. They're not written, not rehearsed. It's spontaneous, extemporaneous material. People

I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.

I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.