Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.

He never gave up. And he does that for us

I felt like an alien. I always felt like I never belonged to any group that I wanted to belong to.

The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for five years on a marijuana breakdown.

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine I'm an audience.