Think Of My Movies As Heightening Our

Ecstatic Absurdity: It's The Confrontation With Meaninglessness.

You Can't Really Trust Anybody Who Doesn't Talk A Lot, Because How Would You Know What They're Thinking?

Maybe Today I Would Call Fred Leuchter And There Would Be Two Or Three Other Documentary Filmmakers Interested In His Story Simply Because Of The Exposure.

There's A Line I Love In Conan The Barbarian Where Someone Says, "that Used To Be Another Snake Cult, Now I See It Everywhere." That's Certainly True Of Documentaries. I Wouldn't Say It's Ubiquitous, But It's Become Close To Ubiquitous. It's Everywhere.

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