Cinema Verite confounds fact and truth, and thus plows only stones. And yet, facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

By dint of declaration the so-called Cinema Verite is devoid of verite. It reaches a merely superficial truth, the truth of accountants.

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

As you see [filmmaking] makes me into a clown. And that happens to everyone - just look at Orson Wells or look at even people like Truffaut. They have become c…