Sometimes You Think You Want To Know

Though I Am Still Very Vulnerable To Audiences—and It Happens All The Time - Where For Some Reason The Energy Doesn’t Connect And, Since The Film Is Very Personal, Obviously I Am Made To Feel Very Vulnerable By That.

You Can Talk About Holocaust Denial, But It's Really Marginal For The Most Part. What Is Compelling About The Armenian Genocide, Is How It Has Been Forgotten.

I Find It Deeply Upsetting When I See Justice Not Being Served. How Do We As Human Beings Deal With The Unknown? The West Memphis Three Trial Is A Joke On So Many Different Levels.

I Think In The '80s, When I Started Making Films, We Were All Suspicious Of These Technologies. We Were All Convinced They Would Filter Out Any Emotion And Sense Of Intimacy, And The Films I Made During That Period Reflected That. In Fact, What Has Happened Is The Opposite. I Think We're Saturated With A Degree Of Intimacy We Would Never Have Expected, And We're Trying To Sort Through This Idea Of Complete Access To Each Other's Lives On An Ongoing Basis. Our Emotions Aren't Filtered Out At All. They're Actually Accelerated.

I Think Ultimately If You Have A Very High Expectation Of Your Audience And You Know Exactly What It Is You're Trying To Express Through The Medium Of Film, There Will Always Be An Audience For You.