If you look at great reform, it always starts from parents. If you look at the movement to reform the special education movement, it was driven by parents who were fierce advocates for their children. — 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 society. You project this perfect world on the path you're going to set for your kids. — 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 Image
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 Image
Our schools are not geared toward building, preparing kids for the modern economy. — Davis Guggenheim 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
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 Image
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 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 unpack that… — Davis Guggenheim 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 of the… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Too many documentaries are intellectual exercises. I want documentaries to be alive. — Davis Guggenheim 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 don't set… — 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 can see. — 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 be more… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
