I Used To Say That

You Can Ask Yourself, If A Film Makes A Claim, Is The Claim True Or False? Having Said That, A Style Of Presenting Material Doesn't Guarantee Truth. There's This Crazy Idea That Somehow You Pick A Style, And By Virtue Of Picking The Style, You've Provided Something That Is More Truthful. It's As If You Imagine That Changing The Font On A Sentence You Write Makes It More Truthful.

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.

One Of The Strengths Of My Interviews Is That I Really, Honest To God, Have No Idea What People Are Going To Say.

This Uses A Lens System, Which I Have Used For Years In Various Different Ways, But I've Never Used It In The Context Of An Interview. This Is The Very First Time That I've Done That. It's A Lens Called The Revolution, So It Allowed Me To Interview Elsa [dorfman] And Actually Operate The Camera. Well One Of The Cameras, Because There Were Four Cameras There.

They Say Seeing Is Believing, But The Opposite Is True. Believing Is Seeing.