We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.

(When asked what a director does) I help.

The relationship between the films and the individual Commandments [is] a tentative one. The films should be influenced by the individual Commandments to the same degree that the Commandments influence our daily lives.

I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.

Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.

Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened.

You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's fate - but you can't want to make a film simply for the sake of it.