Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.
From Errol Morris
I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.
But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the onset - that you are investigating, with a camera, and the story emerges as you go along.
We all know that yellow journalism didn't just happen a week ago or a month ago, that yellow journalism has probably been with us as long as journalism has been with us.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.
People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.
What's great about documentary, 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.'
Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.
I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
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