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If people spend two hours thinking about the direction of their own lives and can relate to the stories they see on screen, to me that's a success.

Joe Berlinger

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There`s a fine line between balanced journalism and trial by television.
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I mean, The Jinx is an amazing piece of cinema and amazing television moment, it`s rare documentarians can feel the direct impact of their work.
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The world is watching, and you better be fair.
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I actually have come to believe that if people were more connected to their fellow human beings, if we all felt more centred and fulfilled in our lives, maybe we would be pointing our cameras at a lot less social ills.
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I'm an observer in life, not a participant. That's why I'm a documentarian who looks through a camera. I'm not a touchy-feely person I'm not a seminar person.
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You have to remain open to the situation that you're filming otherwise you might miss the story.
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Any documentary any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual literal truth of an event.
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I felt like the universe was tapping me on the shoulder saying, You're the guy who has to tell this story because nobody else is.
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Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.
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One of the great ironies of my career is that people imagine me as some sort of hardcore metal guy because of the Metallica film.
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If a concert film is an experience of the musicianship without critiquing it, then this, too, is dropping you into a world and letting you experience it.
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I never believe I'm presenting objective reality I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.
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The filmmaker is not telling you what to think.
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What you hope, what you're trusting the filmmaker to do, is to capture the emotional truth of the situation.
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