Long, Long Before I Became

I Believe That We Face Incredible Obstacles In Our Attempts To See The World. Everything In Our Nature Tries To Deny The World Around Us; To Refabricate It In Our Own Image; To Reinvent It For Our Own Benefit. And So, It Becomes Something Of A Challenge, A Task, To Recover (or At Least Attempt To Recover) The Real World Despite All The Impediments To That End.

My Stuff Always Starts With Interviews. I Start Interviewing People, And Then Slowly But Surely, A Movie Insinuates Itself.

The Chance That Any Given Sentence Is A Lie, Rather Than A Truth, I Think, Is Fairly Great. An Intentional Lie, A Self-deception, A Misconception - There Are Lots Of Categories Of Untruth, Not One Grab Bag. And Hotographs Can Reveal Something To Us, And They Can Also Conceal Things.

I Gave Someone A Perverse Argument Not So Long Ago About Why Advertising Is Better Than Movies. You Want To Hear It? Movies Operate From A Really Disingenuous Premise, That People Are Heroes. I Know A Lot Of People And Have Had An Opportunity Over The Years To Observe Them. Are They Heroes...? Let's Put It This Way. Advertising Tries Something Simpler And More Believable: Products As Heroes. I Guess The Idea Is: When All Else Fails, Put Your Faith In Conditioner.

The Very Idea Of Photography Is As Oliver Wendell Holmes Said In The 19th Century, "it's A Mirror With A Memory."