Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
Do I like tawdry, sleazy stories? Yeah, I do.
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 because I filmed these scenes. That always and still seems to be nonsensical.
But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made.
Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.
