It's Really Hard To Know Why Certain

I Used To Work As A Private Detective Years And Years Ago. And My Boss Gave Me This One Very Simple Piece Of Advice About Trying To Figure Out Who To Interview First In Any Investigation. His Recommendation: Always Pick The People Who Were Fired. Pick The People Who Are Pissed Off.

We Have More Information - A Glut Of Information - Than Ever Before, And Perhaps Less Knowledge. That's What's Peculiar. And The Only Way You Can Deal With It, I Suppose, Is To Make Fun Of It. I Would Rather Watch Comedy Central For The News Than I'd Like To Watch Any Other Program On Television. Maybe That Shows You The State Of Affairs.

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

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.

Maybe Today I Would Call Fred Leuchter And There Would Be Two Or Three Other Documentary Filmmakers Interested In His Story Simply Because Of The Exposure.