What you hope, what you're trusting the filmmaker to do, is to capture the emotional truth of the situation.

If a concert film is an experience of the musicianship without critiquing it, then this, too, is dropping you into a world and letting you experience it.

The Metallica film was like this incredible life experience where I learned the most through guys that stereotypically you would think couldn't offer much to you. That's what I love about the film: It explodes your stereotype of them - they're not just a bunch of lugheads banging on the guitar.

I felt like the universe was tapping me on the shoulder saying, "You're the guy who has to tell this story because nobody else is."

I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.

What you hope, what you're trusting the filmmaker to do, is to capture the emotional truth of the situation.

Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual literal truth of an event.