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- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first documentary I saw that tried to show the actual experience of being a soldier in combat was 'The Anderson Platoon,' by French director Pierre Schoendoerffer, which won the Oscar for best documentary in 1967.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although 'The Anderson Platoon' was what we would now call an 'embedded film' - with all the ambiguities that term implies - somehow Schoendoerffer got away with showing things as they really were from a grunt's perspective.
- Fresh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite the limitations of the bulky 16mm camera and 10-minute film magazines, 'The Anderson Platoon' feels as spontaneous and fresh as any films that have come out of the Afghan or Iraq wars.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In war films, even more than in other kinds of documentary, we've come to think that shaky, poor-quality footage is somehow more authentic than something classically 'well shot.'
- Early Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is a tendency in modern television I hate, it is the unstoppable march of the dramatic reconstruction to tell the stories of anything from an ancient Egyptian battle to the early life of Paul Gascoigne.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about making a film on a submarine is that it's kind of like making a play. You've got this limited environment.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it really difficult when you make a movie where it is set in Russia and everyone speaks in English. It drives me crazy.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It feels like we're all so familiar now with the traditional three-act structure that, actually, stories that are more complex, more naughty, that allow for disagreement and discussion, are more interesting to us.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that, I don't know.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man, no woman is without their flaws.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can relate to someone with a flaw.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love submarine movies.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Humphrey Jennings. People ask me who my favorite documentary maker is, and he's certainly in the top three.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A publisher friend of mine suggested that I write a book about my grandfather, who had just died. I had nothing else to fill my empty days with, so I started work on this book. While researching it - watching lots of movies, talking to moviemakers - I became interested in movies and started making documentaries.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The interesting thing to me is that somehow the future of movies will become a more social thing... I think that people will see them communally and will be talking about them as they're watching them, in a way, and immediately after watching them, and they'll all become the conversation. I think that's pretty interesting.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
'State of Play' is a romantic story at its heart.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes people give away more by not saying something.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can understand, you can feel compassion.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my early career as a documentarian, I suppose I was trying to make films which - where it was all about making a big cinematic statement, and I think with 'Marley,' I slightly changed my direction and adopted a more mellow approach.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not doing any more music films!
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a teenager in the '80s, and I was always a bit dismissive of Houston, as I think a lot of people who considered themselves 'cool music fans' were. She was poppy, bubble gum, making music not considered very cool. But you can't help but dance to some of those songs or feel emotionally affected by 'I Will Always Love You.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people in Uganda have something good to say about Amin - 'He was funny; he gave us pride to be African.'
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming from documentaries, my biggest challenge was to understand actors' psychologies. American actors take it all very seriously; British actors don't enter into all this methody way of doing things.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can get good performances in quite sizable roles from people who have never been in front of a camera, people who maybe have never been in front of a movie theater.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some ways, making documentaries is like being a journalist. You interview people and then use the bits you want to use as opposed to the bits they want you to use.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've fallen out very badly with some of the subjects I've interviewed, because they see their lives a certain way; to step into a cinema and see your life depicted in another way can come as a terrible shock.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only obligation you have as a film-maker is to tell your version of the truth and to use your film to illuminate reality. Whatever that means.
- Guilty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The relationship between director and subject can become very intense. It's a bit like therapy, with lots of transferences going on. It's easy to feel guilty.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's obviously presumptuous in some ways to talk about somebody's sexuality who's not here to describe themselves.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done a few celebrity-related things, and I think on the first one - about Mick Jagger - I got stung and was not able to make the film I wanted to make.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.
- British
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- Nov 07, 2020