Quotes by Frederick Wiseman

Frederick Wiseman

A lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it’s very rare that any sequence is the sequence that is shot.

Editing

Film

Issues

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can’t be content with the way the world works.

Mind

Way

World

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

Documentaries

Real

Ruins

Even if I know I’m going to go to a church, I don’t know what the minister’s going to say.

Church

Knows

Ministers

Everything about a movie is manipulation.

Manipulation

I am bad at cultural generalizations but I would venture to say that by a wide margin there is less hypocrisy about sex in France than in America.

America

Hypocrisy

Sex

I do not think that my films or films by any other filmmaker represent “THE TRUTH.” I do not feel the need to categorize my films or anyone else’s.

Film

Needs

Thinking

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.

Character

Novelists

Thinking

I don’t really know what I want, other than good sequences, whatever that means. What I find is always a matter of chance, judgment, and luck.

Luck

Mean

Want

I think I have an obligation, to the people who have consented to be in the film, to make a film that is fair to their experience. The editing of my films is a long and selective process. I do feel that when I cut a sequence, I have an obligation to the people who are in it, to cut it so that it fairly represents what I felt was going on at the time, in the original event. I don’t try and cut it to meet the standards of a producer or a network or a television show.

Cutting

Editing

Thinking

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America

Analysis

Apartment

Beautiful

Believe

Boundaries

Bullshit

Busy

Character

Choices

Church

Class

Cutting

Details

Different

Doctors

Documentaries

Doe

Drama

Editing

Editors

Effort

Example

Existence

Film

Forever

Goal

Hypocrisy

Ideas

Ifs

Important

Interesting

Issues

Jobs

Knows

Lawyer

Limits

Luck

Lying

Manipulation

Mean

Mind

Ministers

Movie

Museums

Narrative

Needs

Newspapers

Novelists

Optimistic

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Quotes by Frederick Wiseman

Frederick Wiseman

A lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it’s very rare that any sequence is the sequence that is shot.

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can’t be content with the way the world works.

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

Even if I know I’m going to go to a church, I don’t know what the minister’s going to say.

Everything about a movie is manipulation.

I am bad at cultural generalizations but I would venture to say that by a wide margin there is less hypocrisy about sex in France than in America.

I do not think that my films or films by any other filmmaker represent “THE TRUTH.” I do not feel the need to categorize my films or anyone else’s.

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.

I don’t really know what I want, other than good sequences, whatever that means. What I find is always a matter of chance, judgment, and luck.

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