Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I ….

The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so mel….

Some people say there are plenty of fish in the sea - until you find love - then there is only one..

With 'Submarin', Richard [Ayoade] gave us a lot of freedom and he really helped us. He's so amazing. It really changed things for me and brought my l….

[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression ….

How do you create a film that can reach millions of people and engage them in the subject? You have to take risks and try something new..

You have to remain positive and just try your best and part of that is doing things that continually surprise people, including yourself, so that you….

I've learned a lot about how to be in a band. It's like being in a marriage to these people. Because there's so many of us, there's a polygamous qual….

Most election analysts in the U.S. habitually confuse the sound of money talking with the voice of the people..

It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done yo….

I've always said that movies are kind of like love affairs. Two people come together, and if they're at the right place at the right time and it's th….

The visual quality of the cameras now is such that you can shoot with available light, and if people are willing to mount a microphone on the camera ….

A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film as being an absolute ….

If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story across. You'd like to….

One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it has all of those built-in ch….

Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow i….

The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas..

I like documenting people who can break away from the conformist boring world we are stuck in and either live their life in a much more far out way o….

Time doesn't heal scars as most people commonly think. It simply makes them firmer, stiffer. One must accept it and not hope to mend and return to wh….

I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need t….

When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, "I want that.".