The First Polaroid Ever Took

People Like Nonfiction Presented To Them In A Certain Way, So That They Don't Have To Think About Whether It's True Or Not. They Like It To Have That Imprimatur Of Respectability, Of Genuineness.

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

Certain Kinds Of Intimacy Emerge On A Phone Call That Might Never Occur If You Were Sitting Right Next To The Other Person.

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.

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.