There are lots of different ways to make film. I don't believe there has to be any orthodox way to making movies, or any rules. It's what works for the filmmaker, and, theoretically, the audience.
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I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at.Frederick Wiseman
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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Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.
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Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.
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They're all movies. I've always just done whatever interested me and this interested me. I never felt any need to rationalize to myself or to anyone else why I chose to do a fiction film. Maybe I'll do another fiction film, maybe I won't maybe I'll do another documentary, maybe I won't.
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