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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.

A Lot Of The Distinctions That We Make Between Drama And Documentary Are Spurious. We're Deeply Confused About These Issues. About The Difference Between The Two, About Where Documentary Ends And Drama Begins.

I Used To Say That Interviewing Others Was Perhaps The Way I Could Stop Talking And Start Listening. It's A Kind Of Enforced Silence.

The Claim That Everybody Sees The World Differently Is Not A Claim That There's No Reality. It's A Different Kind Of Claim.

I'm One Simple Way I Think I've Succeeded Was Capturing Elsa [dorfman]. There's Something About Elsa, Her Personality, And Her Work That I Believe Is There.