I Like To Think That

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.

I Used To Live In New York City, Then When My Son Was Two Years Old We Moved To Cambridge Massachusetts And We've Been There Ever Since. My Son Is Now Twenty-nine Years Old, So We've Been Up There For A While.

The Way I Go About Making A Movie... Even The Ones That Are Interview-driven, I Go Into Them Not Knowing What's Going To Happen, And Feeling My Way Through.

Maybe [killers] Is One Of My Real Passions. Why Deny It?

War Is Such A Peculiar Thing - Inaugurated By The Whims Of Few, Affecting The Fate Of Many. It Is Difficult, If Not Impossible, Thing To Understand, Yet We Feel Compelled To Describe It As Though It Has Meaning - Even Virtue. It Starts For Reasons Often Hopelessly Obscure, Meanders On, Then Stops