[elsa Dorfman]was Well Known. Certainly In The

What Is It That Angers Us?... We Have Been Tricked. In Essence, We Have Been Lied To. The Problem Is Not That The Photograph Has Been Manipulated, But That We Have Been Manipulated By The Photograph.

I Believe We Have Two Ideas About How Movies Are Made In Our Heads. Idealizations. Platonic Ideals. One Of Them Is Of A Movie That Is Completely Uncontrolled, And Another Is A Movie That Is Completely Controlled. The Auteur Theory Vs. Cinéma Vérité.

In The Case Of The Thin Blue Line, I Was Surprised Actually By Many Things. I Was Shooting Down In Texas Where The Actual Killer David Harris Lived And I Interviewed The Town Cop. He Described These Guys As Being David Harris' Partners In Crime And Even Though They Had Criminal Records And Had Committed Crimes, They Sued Me! More Often Than Not, The Insurance Company That Protects You Against This Type Of Lawsuit Will Settle It With Cash And Contest It In A Court Of Law.

I've Always Loved [elsa Dorfman] Work. I've Loved Her And Her Work Is So Much An Expression Of Her. One Of The Reasons To Make The Film Is To Expose Elsa, Hopefully, To A Wider Audience.

People Can Burn Archives; People Can Destroy Evidence, But To Say That History Is Perishable, That Historical Evidence Is Perishable, Is Different Than Saying That History Is Subjective.