I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
“I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the editing room that's shaped by getting to know the person and digging deeper, unpeeling the layers of them as you get to know them.”
“As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.”