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There Is Something About The Photographs That Is Endlessly Disturbing. The Fact That We Like To Think Of Them As Torture Actually Hides What Is Really Deeply Offensive About Them.

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.

A Movie Is Like A Tip Of An Iceberg, In A Way, Because So Little Of What You Do In Connection With Making A Movie Actually Gets Into The Movie. Almost Everything Gets Left Behind.

If Someone Tells You That George Bush Is Not The 43rd President Of The United States, They Might Be Engaged In Wishful Thinking, Or Denial, But If They Make That Claim, It's Either True Or False! And You Can Assess That, Regardless Of Whether There's An Omniscient Narrator, Or An Unreliable Narrator, Or It's Shot In Vérité, Or It's Manipulated, It's Agitprop, Whatever! It Makes No Difference! It's A Style!

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