I Think Calling Someone A Character Is

My Films Are As Much Concerned With Truth As Anything In Vérité. Maybe More So.

I've Had People Turn Me Down. Not All That Many, But Certainly It Happens.

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.

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.

There's A Line I Love In Conan The Barbarian Where Someone Says, "that Used To Be Another Snake Cult, Now I See It Everywhere." That's Certainly True Of Documentaries. I Wouldn't Say It's Ubiquitous, But It's Become Close To Ubiquitous. It's Everywhere.