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.
Do I like tawdry, sleazy stories? Yeah, I do.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
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.
