I Actually Like Doing Commercials. I Don't

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.

My Films Are As Much Concerned With Truth As Anything In Vérité. Maybe More So.

Long, Long Before I Became A Filmmaker I Was Talking To Killers. Filmmaking Was An After Thought.

I Actually Like Doing Commercials. I Don't Like Doing Them To The Exclusion Of Everything Else, But I Like Doing Them. The 30-second Format Is Very Hard. I Sometimes Call It American Haiku. And I Think Some Of The Commercials I've Done Are Not So Bad.

I Believe That We Face Incredible Obstacles In Our Attempts To See The World. Everything In Our Nature Tries To Deny The World Around Us; To Refabricate It In Our Own Image; To Reinvent It For Our Own Benefit. And So, It Becomes Something Of A Challenge, A Task, To Recover (or At Least Attempt To Recover) The Real World Despite All The Impediments To That End.