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I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Nobody would let us do 'Crisis' again.

Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.

To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.

I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.

I had maybe heard 'The Times Are A-Changing' on the radio, but I had no idea who Dylan was. No idea.

I think nowadays people are so used taking the camera to the family picnic - so people are less surprised by films made of them, like home movies.

You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing - it lets you speculate.

A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us. They work in the real world and earn money and are pretty good at it.

It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story.

I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists
there's no room for democracy in making film.

I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.

Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.