When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary film was.

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

As a documentary filmmaker, I'm very respectful, and my interview style is not intrusive. I don't really have an agenda. I just go in there, I mumble something or other, I wait for them to speak, and I wait for them to stop.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.

The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way.
Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.