There is a very particular feeling I get when I have the camera in my hand, looking at an actor talk, knowing that what I’m shooting will end up on the screen.

Haskell Wexler

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I don't think there is a movie that I've been on that I wasn't sure I could direct it better. But certainly also, as a director of photography, I have to serve the movie in whatever way I can as a filmmaker.

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We have a responsibility to show the public the kinds of truths that they don't see on the TV news or the Hollywood film.

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I don't attack any kind of script or shooting with some philosophy that is discernible even to myself. It might just be art and love: When I got my Academy Award for 'Virginia Woolf' in the middle of the Vietnam War, I said, 'I hope we can use our art for peace and love.'

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Employers will work you longer for less money and under questionable safety conditions because it is their duty to prioritize the bottom line. As individuals, we cannot complain. That's why we need a union to speak for us, certainly when our safety, our health, and our very lives are at stake!

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Documentary people have to know that, particularly nowadays, they have to be on a mission. And part of the mission is to - is to be like good journalists: search for the truth, have an open mind, listen to as much as you can of different sides of things.

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People say they make movies to show what 'really happens.' But they only show what they choose to show.

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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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