Making movies is an effort is an attempt to leave a trace of your existence.

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

This whole business of documentary being a second-class citizen is bullshit. A documentary can be as interesting, as dramatic, as sad, as funny, blah, blah, blah, as a fiction movie. Or it can be as awful as a fiction movie!

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

A lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it's very rare that any sequence is the sequence that is shot.

Of course there's conscious manipulation! Everything about a movie is manipulation ... If you like it, it's an interpretation. If you don't like it, it's a lie - but everything about these movies is a distortion."

I'm very careful of not being critical of other people's movies, which work in different styles. I think some of my movies can be interpreted as critical of their subjects.