If a movie can take you to the place that I've been to, and the audience can experience what I've experienced, then I feel - success might not be the right word, but I'm satisfied that I did my job. — 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 most quiet,… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share
The more I work, the more I try to keep myself open like a raw nerve. When I feel things in a story, I… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share
Our schools are not geared toward building, preparing kids for the modern economy. — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share
Underneath it, in 'An Inconvenient Truth', we talked a lot about the unspoken decisions that people make in their heads. — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 when there's… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share
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 unpack that… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share
You look at the trajectories; and as our schools have declined, you see the other alternatives increase, private school, home schooling, all of the… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share
Too many documentaries are intellectual exercises. I want documentaries to be alive. — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share
Is being negative more journalistic for some reason? I don't know. But I don't set out to make puff pieces and I don't set… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share
As a filmmaker, the most dramatic and the most dread-inspiring thing is when the audience can see more than the characters themselves can see. — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share
I'm not one of these guys who thinks testing is the only thing. But testing is a piece but there has to be more… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share
If you look at great reform, it always starts from parents. If you look at the movement to reform the special education movement, it… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share
I was a terrible student. When I went to Sidwell Friends, there were 100 kids in my class. I was the worst student, by… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share
I don't set out to make movies about famous people, though I guess I have. I think what I set out to do is… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share
