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We're all fascinated by the way other people live their lives, how they cope with hardship and triumph, what they put in their home movies and family albums.

The first documentary I saw that tried to show the actual experience of being a soldier in combat was 'The Anderson Platoon,' by French director Pierre Schoendoerffer, which won the Oscar for best documentary in 1967.

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Although 'The Anderson Platoon' was what we would now call an 'embedded film' - with all the ambiguities that term implies - somehow Schoendoerffer got away with showing things as they really were from a grunt's perspective.

Despite the limitations of the bulky 16mm camera and 10-minute film magazines, 'The Anderson Platoon' feels as spontaneous and fresh as any films that have come out of the Afghan or Iraq wars.

In war films, even more than in other kinds of documentary, we've come to think that shaky, poor-quality footage is somehow more authentic than something classically 'well shot.'

There were many times during the filming of 'Touching the Void' when I wondered why I had ever thought I wanted to make this film.

In film, I believe things should either be documentary or drama.

If there is a tendency in modern television I hate, it is the unstoppable march of the dramatic reconstruction to tell the stories of anything from an ancient Egyptian battle to the early life of Paul Gascoigne.

The great thing about making a film on a submarine is that it's kind of like making a play. You've got this limited environment.

Everyone's got to make one submarine drama in their life.

I find it really difficult when you make a movie where it is set in Russia and everyone speaks in English. It drives me crazy.

It feels like we're all so familiar now with the traditional three-act structure that, actually, stories that are more complex, more naughty, that allow for disagreement and discussion, are more interesting to us.

People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that, I don't know.

No man, no woman is without their flaws.

You can relate to someone with a flaw.

What got me into making movies was that I wanted to be a journalist.

I love submarine movies.

I love Humphrey Jennings. People ask me who my favorite documentary maker is, and he's certainly in the top three.

A publisher friend of mine suggested that I write a book about my grandfather, who had just died. I had nothing else to fill my empty days with, so I started work on this book. While researching it - watching...

The interesting thing to me is that somehow the future of movies will become a more social thing... I think that people will see them communally and will be talking about them as they're watching them, in a way, and...

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