D. A. Pennebaker Professions : Filmmaker Born : July 15, 1925 Browse All Authors Top 33 quotes by D. A. Pennebaker I wanted James Carville to never die. I wanted Dylan, the poet, to not die. I wanted to put these people in a place where they would be inviolate. It wasn't enough to have a still life of them. I wanted to surround them with the lives they led. D. A. Pennebaker die place life people I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me. D. A. Pennebaker well know me hero We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market. D. A. Pennebaker you money moon thinking Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan. D. A. Pennebaker making partner film office I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do. D. A. Pennebaker general i-think good think Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you. D. A. Pennebaker control you wish sometimes To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens. D. A. Pennebaker need you real life If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain. D. A. Pennebaker camera phone problems you When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening. D. A. Pennebaker you editing together way Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags. D. A. Pennebaker companions planet animals our One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away. D. A. Pennebaker animals things intelligence people I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved! D. A. Pennebaker new were involved film It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story. D. A. Pennebaker without story history interesting Similar Authors Burnie Burns filmmaker Brian Lindstrom filmmaker Brian Koppelman filmmaker Anne Fontaine filmmaker Avi Lewis filmmaker Ava DuVernay filmmaker All Authors
