You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with.

It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn.

When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.