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!

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!

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

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.

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

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

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.