"I talked to people who said afterwards that they would find themselves weeping, and they would look and there's, you know, somebody weeping beside them by they didn't even know why."

"We were filming and... so many sheep, like 2,000 sheep, seeing them in the streets or even crossing the highway."

"I decided that perhaps the best solution is to use real footage, since I was making this film 'underground' [without legal permits]... I believed that even if I had the capacity to recreate these scenes, I could never reach the power of the reality that was documented in the real footage."

"The more serious and earnest I become, the more I realize that my films may only be understood by a certain type of person."

"If you heard the original sound for those shots, you would hear nonstop honking. We pissed off so many people..."

"Adapted from the graphic novel by Chester Brown – which was a memoir in itself – and because I was a character in the graphic novel, I took a whole bunch of stuff that wasn't in the novel that I was privy to [...] it's really kind of a hybrid of reality, fiction, all muzzled up."

"Most films are not concerned with real people, in the strict sense of the notion of real people, they're concerned with movie characters. A lot of movies are movies about movies, and I don't make movies about movies."

"The film that I made previously, called Hale County This Morning, This Evening, was essentially from a first person perspective... I used, I think, three or four shots from that film as a proof of concept when trying to show people how images look and how the camera would be moving..."

“Filmmaking is this ability to harness a story, with these incredible actors and locations, and to somehow find a way of bringing it all together.”