Maybe Existence Is Ultimately A Lonely Thing.

I Like To Think That One Of Things I've Done With Non-fiction Since The Very Beginning Is To Find New Ways Of Telling True Stories.

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.

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.

Recently It's Become Much To My Surprise, Something That Does Happen. For Example, I Used To Get Almost All Of My Stories, And It's Probably Still True, From Newspapers. Primarily From The New York Times. No One Ever Really Thinks Of The New York Times As A Tabloid Newspaper And It Isn't A Tabloid Newspaper. But There Is A Tabloid Newspaper Within The New York Times Very, Very Often.

Photographs Attract False Beliefs The Way Flypaper Attracts Flies.