I don't know where you're reading all this stuff, but it's pretty accurate, yes. It was in 1942. I was on a ship called the Accelo(ph) coming back from the Red Sea and we were sunk off the coast of… — 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 was going to keep shooting or help the guy. And so I kept shooting and then they put him in this little clinic, and I photographed through the window while they had to amputate his leg.… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share
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 asked profound questions about their own persona are not really able to enunciate it, because it's a combination of so many things. But certainly influences early on that I felt from my mother. I wouldn't say… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share
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 to Lubbock, Texas, usually and onto a ranch and we would pick cowboys who looked the part and photograph them under dramatic situations - rounding up wild horses or running through streams and then reaching in… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share
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
