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

I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.

Even if I know I'm going to go to a church, I don't know what the minister's going to say.

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.

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!

I don't really know what I want, other than good sequences, whatever that means. What I find is always a matter of chance, judgment, and luck.