There was no actually stock footage in "Medium Cool." I wrote the script. I wrote the riots. And I integrated the actors in the film in the park during the demonstrations. But nowhere was it like we had stock footage… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships. — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
I used it in a shot where Richard Burton goes down the hall to get a gun in a closet. And I wanted to… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
I was shooting all this time. And there was only one guy who helped to pull him. And I had to think whether I… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
Lighting was very primitive. And still it was really the way to learn because sometimes some of the modern technology is so extreme and… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
I rationalize out, well, how much help could you really be, you know? And maybe if people saw this, they'd realize the brutality of… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
When I search myself carefully I do think it's from my mother. I even feel strange saying that. Most people, I believe, when they're… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
The helicopter was a U.S. Navy helicopter. There were no civilian helicopters available to film companies, so they just made some stuff out of… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
There was no actually stock footage in "Medium Cool." I wrote the script. I wrote the riots. And I integrated the actors in the… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
Well, of course the general idea was dreamed up by the advertising agency and so my job was to realize that. And we down… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
Now, I have to - in my defense, I have the say that general knowledge of the deadly nature of cigarettes was not primarily… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
There is a very particular feeling I get when I have the camera in my hand, looking at an actor talk, knowing that what… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
Well, there is a contradiction in a sense. If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
