I do not think that my films or films by any other filmmaker represent "THE TRUTH." I do not feel the need to categorize my films or anyone else's.

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.

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!

In moviemaking, you learn to pay attention to detail, because so much is in the detail. And when you're shooting, you try to be very alert to what's going on, even if you're tired.

I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.

There's a literal track: who says what to whom, what are people wearing, etcetera. And there's the abstract track: what ideas are suggested by the literal. And the real movie takes place in the relationship between the literal and the abstract.

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.