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

Philip Glass once told me, "They can always copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you're going to do."

I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

You can ask yourself, if a film makes a claim, is the claim true or false? Having said that, a style of presenting material doesn't guarantee truth. There's this crazy idea that somehow you pick a style, and by virtue of picking the style, you've provided something that is more truthful. It's as if you imagine that changing the font on a sentence you write makes it more truthful.

You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.

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

People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.