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.'

But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made.

But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the onset - that you are investigating, with a camera, and the story emerges as you go along.

The best documentaries are independent. They don’t exist to serve interests, philanthropic or otherwise.

Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.