The idea of celebrity is becoming more and more appealing to people.

Brian McGinn

Categorized in : Ideas People Becoming

It's hard any time people are sitting down and looking at you across a camera and saying, "I believe that you guys will tell my story faithfully." That's getting to the core principle of being a journalist or a documentarian where people trust you with their stories.

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Everyone had so much to say.

Being nonconfrontational allows people to feel like they can say anything they want.

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I think that the key to any interview is allowing people to feel comfortable enough that they forget they're being interviewed.

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The real battle is in choosing in the edit room. It's in how you contextualize information.

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With the rise of the reality show, everyone thinks they can be a celebrity, or that it would be a positive to be a celebrity, or that everyone who's in the news is a celebrity, and I think that there are a lot of people who don't choose to be on the front page, and yet they're still there.

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The way we as a world consume stories - and sometimes people - is a phenomenon that we're seeing much more of now.

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Of course, you can never really know if someone is fully revealing himself to you or not, so all we can go by is our own gut feelings.

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That's what happens when you're making a movie, you find yourself really loving all these people sitting across from you.

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