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Documentarian Inspirational Quotes (77)

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The subject isn't always a help to the photographer, it's like handcuffs.
Raymond Depardon
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
Dorothea Lange
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I don't speak Arabic - I know a little to get by, but that's all.
Laura Poitras
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
Dorothea Lange
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Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.
Dorothea Lange
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One of the most frightening things, I think, is the capacity for retroactive searching, so you can go back in time and trace who someone is in contact with and where they've been.
Laura Poitras
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You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.
Frederick Wiseman
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You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to see it objectively. Like watching from the audience a play you already know by heart.
George Rodger
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One of the things that I think is true is that encryption actually is able to secure our communications, that every individual can use encryption, and that it's accessible and in many cases free.
Laura Poitras
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I trust my instincts. I don't distrust them. They haven't led me astray. It's when I've made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.
Dorothea Lange
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That's one of the troubles of photography the implication that what you have in that photograph is the way it is, and of course a year later that's not the way it is. Life moves on and the picture stays. That can be a wonderful idea to be a part of history and on the other hand, you think pictures have a life that they don't have.
Eugene Richards
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I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
Dorothea Lange
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually ... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
Dorothea Lange
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
Dorothea Lange
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There's a literal track: who says what to whom, what are people wearing, etcetera. And there's the abstract track: what ideas are suggested by the literal. And the real movie takes place in the relationship between the literal and the abstract.
Frederick Wiseman
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I think one of the most shocking things is how little our elected officials knew about what the NSA was doing. Congress is learning from the reporting and that's staggering. Snowden and [former NSA employee] William Binney, who's also in the film as a whistleblower from a different generation, are technical people who understand the dangers.
Laura Poitras
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The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.
Allan Sekula
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
Dorothea Lange
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My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences.
Frederick Wiseman
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I don't regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I'd rather have a good photograph of my father.
Raymond Depardon
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Of course there's conscious manipulation! Everything about a movie is manipulation ... If you like it, it's an interpretation. If you don't like it, it's a lie - but everything about these movies is a distortion.
Frederick Wiseman
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And always the animals from each trip you bring back a gaze a pose a gesture that points to the truest of humanity better than images of humanity itself
Chris Marker
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Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.
Frederick Wiseman
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Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.
Frederick Wiseman
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