If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

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.

I don't believe truth is conveyed by style and presentation. I don't think that if it was grainy and full of handheld material, it would be any more truthful.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.

What's great about documentary, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of 'documentary.'