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.

It is always a problem to know what an image means.

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.

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.

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

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

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.