A lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it's very rare that any sequence is the sequence that is shot.

My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

I'm very careful of not being critical of other people's movies, which work in different styles. I think some of my movies can be interpreted as critical of their subjects.

I'm in no way suggesting that I succeed, but it's inspiring to read somebody who does succeed and from whom, in a general way, you can draw examples and nourishment and sustenance.

I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.

In moviemaking, you learn to pay attention to detail, because so much is in the detail. And when you're shooting, you try to be very alert to what's going on, even if you're tired.

I do not think that my films or films by any other filmmaker represent "THE TRUTH." I do not feel the need to categorize my films or anyone else's.

It is always a problem to know what an image means.

Contentment isn’t something that just happens to you, Regan Lee, it’s a choice. You have to want exactly what you have.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you. - Erma Bombeck

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

How few writers can prostitute all their powers!

A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.

The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.

We are born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live on the same land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters?

I was, like, a history major, and I minored in art and Spanish, but I found myself gravitating toward media studies as time went on.

I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.