Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.
Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.
I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.
What's interesting is that Citizen Kane was meant as an anti-fascistanti-capitalist melodrama and for Donald Trump it becomes just another kind of misogynistic claim that misses the point.
There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. And that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. They're not written, not rehearsed. It's spontaneous, extemporaneous material. People
Truth exists independent of style. It involves all kinds of issues. Properly considered, it's a quest, a pursuit. To say that vérité is more truthful than something that is narrated is just misplaced. Completely wrong. And the fact that people still talk about it as though they're really talking about something. . . it puzzles me greatly. A moment of reflection about it tells you that it makes no sense!
Finding truth involves some kind of activity. As I like to point out, truth isn't handed to you on a platter. It's not something that you get at a cafeteria, where they just put it on your plate. It's a search, a quest, an investigation, a continual process of looking at and looking for evidence, trying to figure out what the evidence means.
Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.
You don't want to have to be the man and the woman in the relationship. I always say you want a man who can fix the toilet.
Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.
Iran and Iraq have been at war for five years now. The traditional present for a fifth anniversary is wood. Here's a gift suggestion: a big stick to beat some goddamned sense into their heads.