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"As far as I'm concerned, it was never meant to be a documentary. I don't like them much. To my mind, the most interesting filmmaker that I ever knew about was Robert Flaherty, who made Nanook of the North. It was about this Eskimo, and Flaherty didn't try to tell you everything there was to know about the life of an Eskimo. He just wanted to show you what it was like to be with an Eskimo for a little bit. And that's the feeling I tried to put across. I was never interested in educating people about Dylan. First of all, I don't know enough about him. Who does? Besides, that's Dylan's business. If he wanted to educate people, I'm sure he knows how to do it. What I wanted to do was just be present when Dylan enacted his whole life and show you what he deals with and what interests him. It may not be so much about Dylan, because Dylan is sort of acting throughout the film. And that's his right...He had to be extraordinary where most of us settle for just being adequate."