All Alone - Shorn Of Context, Without

War Is Such A Peculiar Thing - Inaugurated By The Whims Of Few, Affecting The Fate Of Many. It Is Difficult, If Not Impossible, Thing To Understand, Yet We Feel Compelled To Describe It As Though It Has Meaning - Even Virtue. It Starts For Reasons Often Hopelessly Obscure, Meanders On, Then Stops

I Don't Believe That You Can Talk About A Photograph Being True Or False. I Don't Think Such A Claim Has Any Meaning.

Robert Nozick [a Havard Philosopher, Famous For His Book "anarchy, State And Utopia"] Defined Revenge As Delivering The Message That You Know What Someone Has Done, And It Doesn't Involve Hurting Them Or Doing Anything To Them Beyond That. It's Just Delivering The Message That Their Crime Has Been Noted Not Just By Its Victims, Because The Victim Might Be Dead, But By Another Who Has A Different Moral View And Will Challenge The Perpetrator's View.

There Is A Documentary Element In My Films, A Very Strong Documentary Element, But By Documentary Element, I Mean An Element That's Out Of Control, That's Not Controlled By Me. And That Element Is The Words, The Language That People Use, What They Say In An Interview. They're Not Written, Not Rehearsed. It's Spontaneous, Extemporaneous Material. People

I Believe We Have Two Ideas About How Movies Are Made In Our Heads. Idealizations. Platonic Ideals. One Of Them Is Of A Movie That Is Completely Uncontrolled, And Another Is A Movie That Is Completely Controlled. The Auteur Theory Vs. Cinéma Vérité.