Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.
I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.
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.
I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.
Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.
The crux of the sea level issue is that it starts very slowly but once it gets going it is practically unstoppable. . . There is no way I can see to stop this rise, even if we have gone to zero emissions.
Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.