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I've Done Interviews In One Day That Went On For Fifteen, Sixteen Hours. And At A Certain Point, The Control Over What They're Saying Breaks Down; It Becomes Different. It Becomes Really Powerful, And For Me, Real. It Becomes Out Of Control.

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.

Long, Long Before I Became A Filmmaker I Was Talking To Killers. Filmmaking Was An After Thought.

It's A Kind Of Honour When I See How Many People Are Imitating The Style Of How I Make Films.

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.