What was the process of editing the film like?
What was interesting about the project was that there was a lot of archival footage. First of all, the family was documented by the media throughout the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, and second of all, Doc just had stuff. He had 16 mm film of the family, or Super 8 film. They might have been poor but he still had cameras and documented the hell out of the entire experience. It took forever to edit. The story of making this movie is so much more about editing than it is about shooting. Shooting to me was like going grocery shopping: we just went out, got the interviews, brought them back in. And then we struggled and sweat for a year in the editing room. Doc clearly has some strong opinions about America and what we’re all doing wrong, but the film manages to walk a careful line the whole way through. You never really veer into Michael Moore territory, for example. That’s intentional, for sure. I mean, Doc has really strong views on culture and health. His whole view can be boiled down to the w
