I don't like it when a filmmaker has an agenda and I don't know it. When the contract is not clear, that's… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
The more I work, the more I try to keep myself open like a raw nerve. When I feel things in a… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Often I've met people who are famous, and as you get to know them, they disappoint you. — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
The good news is everybody believes in education, Republican or Democrat, we want great schools. — Davis Guggenheim Education Copy Share Image
Our schools are not geared toward building, preparing kids for the modern economy. — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Too many documentaries are intellectual exercises. I want documentaries to be alive. — Davis Guggenheim Alive Copy Share Image
I was going to direct the movie 'Training Day', and I got fired. Denzel Washington didn't want me to direct the movie. — Davis Guggenheim Day Copy Share Image
Underneath it, in 'An Inconvenient Truth', we talked a lot about the unspoken decisions that people make in their heads. — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
It's so interesting, when you're a parent, you have these big ideals. Before I had kids, you imagine this sort of egalitarian… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I'm interested in a realization that's hiding beneath the surface, and maybe that's what documentaries can do best, is to try to… — Davis Guggenheim Beneath the surface Copy Share Image
If a movie can take you to the place that I've been to, and the audience can experience what I've experienced, then… — Davis Guggenheim Experience Copy Share Image
If you look at great reform, it always starts from parents. If you look at the movement to reform the special education… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I do a lot of audio-only interviews at first just to capture a feeling and go deeper, as if you're having the… — Davis Guggenheim Conversation Copy Share Image
I don't set out to make movies about famous people, though I guess I have. I think what I set out to… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
It's interesting when you talk to someone who has really been through something very, very terrible. They are less likely to talk… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these guys who thinks testing is the only thing. But testing is a piece but there has to… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, the most dramatic and the most dread-inspiring thing is when the audience can see more than the characters themselves… — Davis Guggenheim Audience Copy Share Image
You look at the trajectories; and as our schools have declined, you see the other alternatives increase, private school, home schooling, all… — Davis Guggenheim Education Copy Share Image
The very first film, documentary that I made, was called 'The First Year.' It was 11 years ago and I followed these… — Davis Guggenheim Day Copy Share Image
I was a terrible student. When I went to Sidwell Friends, there were 100 kids in my class. I was the worst… — Davis Guggenheim Class Copy Share Image
The Muslim world is portrayed as a monolith that is consistently scary and negative, and as much as you can be an… — Davis Guggenheim Diet Copy Share Image
Is being negative more journalistic for some reason? I don't know. But I don't set out to make puff pieces and I… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
