Language Can Be Used To So Many

But There's A Big Difference Between, Say, Reporting On A Story And Simply Making Up A Story.

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.

I Actually Like Doing Commercials. I Don't Like Doing Them To The Exclusion Of Everything Else, But I Like Doing Them. The 30-second Format Is Very Hard. I Sometimes Call It American Haiku. And I Think Some Of The Commercials I've Done Are Not So Bad.

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

What's Great About Documentary Genre, It Seems To Me, Is That It Can Be Experimental Filmmaking. You Have A License To Do A Lot Of Diverse Things Under The Umbrella Of "documentary."