Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.