Nothing Is So Obvious That

We Imagine What This Country Is, But Quite Clearly, This Country Is A Mystery. I Mean, One Of The Reasons I Did The Election Ads Is, I Thought I Could Learn Something. Like, What The Hell Is Going On? I Think Anybody - Particularly A Person Of Leftist Persuasion Such As Myself - Who Stops And Thinks Even For A Moment, Realizes That Something Strange Is Going On And We Don't Quite Get It.

Finding Truth Involves Some Kind Of Activity. As I Like To Point Out, Truth Isn't Handed To You On A Platter. It's Not Something That You Get At A Cafeteria, Where They Just Put It On Your Plate. It's A Search, A Quest, An Investigation, A Continual Process Of Looking At And Looking For Evidence, Trying To Figure Out What The Evidence Means.

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.

The First Polaroid Ever Took Of Someone In My Family Was My Son When He Was About Four Years Old.

Twenty To Thirty Years Ago, Who Was Making Documentary Films? Nobody. Well, Relatively Few People. It Was An Art Form That Had Limited Theatrical Distribution, If Any At All. Some Television Distribution, But Relatively Small Audiences Regardless. And In The Intervening Years It's Become More And More Popular With A Lot Of People.