Albert Maysles

"…After all, knowledge of the real world is exactly what we need to better understand and therefore possibly to love one another. It is my way of making the world a better place……

"...When I make a documentary I know I am truthfully recording life experiences as they occur. For me, this process is how people from all walks of life can actually feel what it is like being in one another’s shoes and share a gift – for the author, the film or video: for the subject, the act of recognition: and for the viewer, a humanizing of life, an engagement in all its infinite possibilities…"

Albert Maysles