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“Maybe today I would call Fred Leuchter and there would be two or three other documentary filmmakers interested in his story simply because of the exposure.”

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God is greater than anything that man can do or has done. He is not undone by just a train of powder. "Our God…

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In the case of The Thin Blue Line, I was surprised actually by many things. I was shooting down in Texas where the actual…

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When 'The Thin Blue Line' came out, I was criticized by many people for using reenactments, as if I wasn't dedicated to the truth…

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There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

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Simply coming to the perpetrator and delivering the message is Nozick's definition of revenge. And in that sense, Adi is exacting revenge. When people…

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The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

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The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a…

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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?

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I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

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Right now, we live in bad times in this country, and the fact that there are filmmakers addressing political and social issues is to…

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You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim that a…

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The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.

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Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James Brown recently;…

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Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

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By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.

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I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

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The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what…

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So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.

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