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

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.

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 filmmaker is not telling you what to think.

Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

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.