Making movies is an effort is an attempt to leave a trace of your existence. — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
A lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it's very rare that any sequence is… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences. — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
I do not think that my films or films by any other filmmaker represent "THE TRUTH." I do not feel the need… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life. — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary. — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
I'm very careful of not being critical of other people's movies, which work in different styles. I think some of my movies… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
There's a literal track: who says what to whom, what are people wearing, etcetera. And there's the abstract track: what ideas are… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
Of course there's conscious manipulation! Everything about a movie is manipulation ... If you like it, it's an interpretation. If you don't… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
It's rare in a documentary film that you have a repetitive act. So when you do, you can shoot it in different… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
I think I have an obligation, to the people who have consented to be in the film, to make a film that… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
I think I've learned a lot about how to make movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
I think my movies aren't sentimental. I think my movies are funny and sad and realistic. Not realistic in the sense that… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share
I do not think that my films or films by any other filmmaker represent "THE TRUTH." I do not feel the need to categorize… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share
You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share
I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person. — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share
Unfortunately, I never played an instrument. I can't blame my parents, but I wish I had had music lessons. It's odd because I think… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share
I think I've learned a lot about how to make movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how similar problems… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share
My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life. — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share
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,… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share
Of course there's conscious manipulation! Everything about a movie is manipulation ... If you like it, it's an interpretation. If you don't like it,… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share
I think my movies aren't sentimental. I think my movies are funny and sad and realistic. Not realistic in the sense that they're documentaries,… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share
Making movies is an effort is an attempt to leave a trace of your existence. — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share
One's relationship to time is complicated, and sometimes a day will drag on forever and sometimes it'll be over in a flash. When you… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share
Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works. — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share
