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" I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all? "

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" My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself. "

" Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here! "

" A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories. "

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

" I used to work as a private detective years and years ago. "

" First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories. "

" I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself. "

" But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story. "

" 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.' "

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

" If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing. "

" Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person. "

" 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. "

" If we're reading a first-person account, we know that each and every one of us, myself included, have a great desire to be seen in a certain way, or to be perceived in a certain way. It's unavoidable. "

" If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth. "

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

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

" A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.' "

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" My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds. "

" The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it. "

" When 'The Thin Blue Line' came out, I was criticized by many people for using reenactments, as if I wasn't dedicated to the truth because I filmed these scenes. That always and still seems to be nonsensical. "

" 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. "