If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.

There is no more discovery. Not since the beginning of this century. There are new gadgets. New important gadgets.

Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested.

I write and film history; I don't make it.

The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.