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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.

In the world of independent filmmaking, you're never quite sure what's happening when and where.

A lot of filmmaking is an endurance contest between you and the people you're filming. Every time that you relax, I promise you, something interesting will happen.

I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

Sometimes when you film, you can be in a bit of a bubble, and then suddenly when you finish filming, it's taken out of your hands - it's not yours anymore, and we all love it so much that we feel quite protective of it.

If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.

There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.