What's Great About Documentary Genre, It Seems

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.

All Alone - Shorn Of Context, Without Captions - A Photograph Is Neither True Nor False.... For Truth, Properly Considered, Is About The Relationship Between Language And The World, Not About Photographs And The World.

Maybe Existence Is Ultimately A Lonely Thing.

Truth Exists Independent Of Style. It Involves All Kinds Of Issues. Properly Considered, It's A Quest, A Pursuit. To Say That Vérité Is More Truthful Than Something That Is Narrated Is Just Misplaced. Completely Wrong. And The Fact That People Still Talk About It As Though They're Really Talking About Something... It Puzzles Me Greatly. A Moment Of Reflection About It Tells You That It Makes No Sense!

If You Want To Trick Someone With A Photograph, There Are Lots Of Easy Ways To Do It. You Don't Need Photoshop. You Don't Need Sophisticated Digital Photo-manipulation. You Don't Need A Computer. All You Need To Do Is Change The Caption.