There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

Filmmakers of Cinema Verite resemble tourists who take pictures amid ancient ruins of facts.

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 s…