I think leaving people wanting more is the best thing you can do sometimes. — John Wilson Copy Share Image
Sharing your most intimate thoughts can be a disturbing and messy experience. — John Wilson Experience Copy Share Image
I don't know why people are so afraid of just, like, doing something new. — John Wilson Copy Share Image
I personally am inspired and motivated by all of these documentarians that came before me like Penelope Spheeris, Frederick Wiseman, and Nick… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
The only two requirements I have for a camera are that it turns on quickly and has a great zoom. — John Wilson Camera Copy Share Image
I want to remove all artifice from my work, in a way, by just having a very direct relationship with the people… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
I just like to explore different communities that I haven't seen represented in other media. — John Wilson Communities Copy Share Image
I organize all my footage by the date it was shot, and then arrange everything in a timeline once I begin a… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that obsessively documenting everything sometimes gives me a reason to go out and experience things. — John Wilson Documenting Copy Share Image
I always have my iPhone with me, so I'm never without some way to capture what I need to. — John Wilson Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that a lot of the time in documentaries, the camera person isn't a personality. That's such a wasted opportunity. — John Wilson Documentaries Copy Share Image
One of the movies I made was this film where I go on Court TV and I wear a bunch of hidden… — John Wilson Cinema Copy Share Image
Pseudonyms make it a little easier to shift perspective and approach the subject matter with the appropriate persona. That also may be… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
Sometimes people are very kind of uptight and they're not really sure how to behave, but after time they open up sometimes.… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
Yeah, I've had to film interviews, commercial interviews - you know, for money, growing up and stuff where I felt like I… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
You know, I've struggled with a certain amount of social anxiety throughout my life, and the best tool that I feel like… — John Wilson Anxiety Copy Share Image
New York City is the best character - it's constantly renewing itself, constantly regenerating itself, losing itself. It makes me want to… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
You know, a lot of my favorite moments in old, you know, fiction films or documentaries are the parts that capture things… — John Wilson Change Copy Share Image
There's this weird kind of thing that happens once the camera's out. And it's a person-by-person thing how the camera will affect… — John Wilson Behavior Copy Share Image
I consider myself a bit of an eccentric, and I relate very deeply to other people that have niche obsessions. — John Wilson Eccentric Copy Share Image
Ron Howard is just a funny legacy director. As a film nerd, he's kind of a funny person to valorize. — John Wilson Director Copy Share Image
This weird thing happens once you start looking for something. It often just begins to reveal itself to you, and you begin… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
I try to turn these bad things that happen to me into something good. The worst feeling in the world is when… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
It's really interesting how acting looks in real life when you remove the production. — John Wilson Acting Copy Share Image
I feel like so much of what passes as documentary or reality TV is just so over-edited, and you don't get a… — John Wilson Documentary Copy Share Image
Filming is the one thing I don't regret. I regret so many other things that I do, but I never regret filming… — John Wilson Cinema Copy Share Image
New York City is home to some of the most beautiful, desperate, and selfish people on the planet, which makes it the… — John Wilson Beautiful Copy Share Image
I think just having a genuine curiosity and not really playing a character when you're with someone intimately is really important. — John Wilson Character Copy Share Image
I don't really think of myself as much as a landlord because my good friends live in the units beneath me. — John Wilson Friends Copy Share Image
A lot of the time, people are themselves on camera. Even if you start recording and they change a tiny bit, it's… — John Wilson Camera Copy Share Image
I want to make 'New York Post: The Movie.' It's about a man who wakes up one morning and finds that he's… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
I got sick and tired of my lady wearing ugly underwear to bed, so I turned to the Internet. — John Wilson Copy Share Image
Engaging with the subject from behind the camera feels like the least artificial way for me to conduct an interview. — John Wilson Camera Copy Share Image
