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

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.

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

Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a certain place and time keeps moving on. A photograph might be a moment in time preserved, but the world continues to change around it.

I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

One of the strengths of my interviews is that I really, honest to God, have no idea what people are going to say.

People think in narratives - in beginnings, middles and ends. The danger when you edit something too severely is that it no longer makes sense; worse still, it leaves people with the disquieting impression that something is being hidden.