Truth is not singular — we have different ways of seeing things. Truth exists in fiction and truth exists in non-fiction. Anyone who sees a Michael Moore film and thinks they’re getting an absolute, objective truth is sadly mistaken. They should know that based on the conventions and the style of filmmaking — he’s making an entertaining movie. And as such, he’s going to take a certain license. I’m talking about art here, I’m not talking about history or journalism. I think you’re confusing journalism with filmmaking. I felt liberated by the fact that I was approaching this as mythology. I don’t think anyone can look at this movie and not get that — it’s animated, for Christ’s sake. I think there’s a lot you can learn about Chicago from this film, but it’s certainly not something objective — I don’t believe, as an artist, in any objectivity in my world.
I think that part of the problem with the way the country’s going is that people no longer believe in objectivity. Isn’t that kind of a dangerous position, because one of the things that got us into this current war was that we couldn’t make the distinction between fact and fiction?
I don’t know why we’re talking about objectivity in cinema. I mean, I just don’t understand that.
There is a tradition in documentary filmmaking that is journalistic and aspires to objectivity . . .
Well, I’ve been trying to smash that belief for the last 10 years. That might have been the case once, but that’s not where we’re going now.
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