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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!

I Used To Say That Interviewing Others Was Perhaps The Way I Could Stop Talking And Start Listening. It's A Kind Of Enforced Silence.

You Can Talk About A Caption Underneath A Photograph Being True Or False, Because There Is A Linguistic Element. You Can Claim That A Photograph Is A Picture Of A Horse Or A Cow, But It Is The Sentence That Expresses The Claim, Which Is True Or False, Not The Photograph.

I Never Intended To Be A Documentary Filmmaker. I Think I Became A Documentary Filmmaker Because I Had Trouble Writing, And I Had Trouble Finishing Things.

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.