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I Actually Felt Diminished By Watching [donald Trump's]. If This Is What Discourse Has Become In America, Who Even Wants To Know About It? It's Just Too Demoralizing And Unsettling.

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 Like To Think That I Differ From Other Interviewers In The Sense That I Hide My Agenda More Successfully, And I'm More Open To Hearing Stuff That Is Surprising And Unexpected. That I'm Actually Involved In An Investigation, Through Monologue, At Times.

In The Case Of The Thin Blue Line, I Was Surprised Actually By Many Things. I Was Shooting Down In Texas Where The Actual Killer David Harris Lived And I Interviewed The Town Cop. He Described These Guys As Being David Harris' Partners In Crime And Even Though They Had Criminal Records And Had Committed Crimes, They Sued Me! More Often Than Not, The Insurance Company That Protects You Against This Type Of Lawsuit Will Settle It With Cash And Contest It In A Court Of Law.

Right Now, We Live In Bad Times In This Country, And The Fact That There Are Filmmakers Addressing Political And Social Issues Is To Me A Good Thing.