I Don't Think That Anybody Really Makes

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.

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

They Say Seeing Is Believing, But The Opposite Is True. Believing Is Seeing.

In The Case Of The Thin Blue Line, I Was Surprised Actually By Many Things. I Was Shooting Down In Texas Where The Actual Killer David Harris Lived And I Interviewed The Town Cop. He Described These Guys As Being David Harris' Partners In Crime And Even Though They Had Criminal Records And Had Committed Crimes, They Sued Me! More Often Than Not, The Insurance Company That Protects You Against This Type Of Lawsuit Will Settle It With Cash And Contest It In A Court Of Law.

It's Really Hard To Know Why Certain Artists Become Famous And Others Don't.