American - Director | February 6, 1922 - December 27, 2015
People say they make movies to show what 'really happens.' But they only show what they choose to show.
Haskell Wexler
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I don't believe in publicity before a film is completed. It costs you money and wastes your energy, and you're inflating your balloon before you have a balloon.
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See, New York is over the hill. It's swallowed up in its own garbage. And the people - I can't stand the people.
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I am a Chicagoan. I feel like I've simply been on vacation for 10 years in Los Angeles. But Chicago is a real place, and L.A. is a motel.
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One person has a responsibility not just for himself but for inter-relationships with the existences of others and the world.
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When they speak about 'We the people...,' we the people have to have a voice. It can't just be the establishment voice.
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I don't know why I developed a social consciousness, but I really think I have a consciousness; I feel connected to everything and everybody in the world.
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Making a film - particularly what I think is a good film - is the result of a team of people, and the end result has many, many hands on it.
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There's a scene in 'Medium Cool' in which a young man walks by with a sign that says, 'Sanity, please.' If anything summarizes what I was feeling at that time, it is that sign.
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