Maybe Today I Would Call Fred Leuchter

I Gave Someone A Perverse Argument Not So Long Ago About Why Advertising Is Better Than Movies. You Want To Hear It? Movies Operate From A Really Disingenuous Premise, That People Are Heroes. I Know A Lot Of People And Have Had An Opportunity Over The Years To Observe Them. Are They Heroes...? Let's Put It This Way. Advertising Tries Something Simpler And More Believable: Products As Heroes. I Guess The Idea Is: When All Else Fails, Put Your Faith In Conditioner.

I Probably Wouldn't Have Done [ Fred Leuchter Story] If It Was Just A Story About An Executioner Or A Holocaust Denier, But The Combination Of The Two Elements Was Irresistible. So Yeah, I Find It Strange That There Are So Many People Out There Now.

Appearing On The Front Page Of The New York Times Even Given The State Of Papers Today Is Still Something That's Seen By A Lot Of People.

Think Of My Movies As Heightening Our Awareness, Not Confusing The Difference Between Truth And Fiction, But Heightening Our Awareness Of How Confused We Can Become About What Is Real.

The Chance That Any Given Sentence Is A Lie, Rather Than A Truth, I Think, Is Fairly Great. An Intentional Lie, A Self-deception, A Misconception - There Are Lots Of Categories Of Untruth, Not One Grab Bag. And Hotographs Can Reveal Something To Us, And They Can Also Conceal Things.