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.

I'm in no way suggesting that I succeed, but it's inspiring to read somebody who does succeed and from whom, in a general way, you can draw examples and nourishment and sustenance.

I'm interested in ordinary experience, and regardless of the precise definition of ordinary, and I've found that in so-called ordinary experience, there is as much comedy, tragedy, sadness, as there is in great drama. And I don't invent it, I recognize it.

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

If I worked in my apartment, I'd never leave my apartment.

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.

It's rare in a documentary film that you have a repetitive act. So when you do, you can shoot it in different ways so that you have more choices when you're sitting down to edit that sequence six months later.