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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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Frederick Wiseman
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: January 1
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Boston
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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.
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Even if I know I'm going to go to a church, I don't know what the minister's going to say.
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Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.
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I do not think that my films or films by any other filmmaker represent THE TRUTH. I do not feel the need to categorize my films or anyone else's.
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I don't really know what I want, other than good sequences, whatever that means. What I find is always a matter of chance, judgment, and luck.
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Everything about a movie is manipulation.
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Unfortunately, I never played an instrument. I can't blame my parents, but I wish I had had music lessons. It's odd because I think I have a good sense of rhythm, as they say in some fields. But I don't know anything about music.
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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.
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I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.
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I'm interested in ordinary experience, and regardless of the precise definition of ordinary, and I've found that in so-called ordinary experience, there is as much comedy, tragedy, sadness, as there is in great drama. And I don't invent it, I recognize it.
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I am bad at cultural generalizations but I would venture to say that by a wide margin there is less hypocrisy about sex in France than in America.
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