With a living person you're always burdened with this idea of fair representation, treading this fine line between honoring the person, and yet you really look at the word "honor," it implies that you then have to address struggle and… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Documentary filmmaking has all the challenges and hardships of narrative filmmaking without any of the infrastructure or support. That's both a blessing and a curse. — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
My grandpa could go days, weeks, even months without a drink but if he took that first drink, he couldn't stop. Once, when I… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
We all use dishwashers every day and yet none of us would say that we're experts on dishwashers, but somehow we all think we're… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the audience would… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché. — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
In documentary you sometimes see the tyranny of the linear, but what I've noticed in the last ten years in narrative film is the… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story across. You'd… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
The visual quality of the cameras now is such that you can shoot with available light, and if people are willing to mount a… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
I knew as a young boy that addiction and alcoholism afflict people - good, loving people - in profound ways, and that some people… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
I think it would be really hypocritical of me to make the films I make, where I delve into people's lives, to say that… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
