Contradictions Quote by Alex Gibney

Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people like Jobs.

— Alex Gibney

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

— Richard Kadrey

I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

The novel is a big space, and a lot can happen. Just think about the parts of your life. How do we account for…

— Rachel Kushner

The equivocations, the confusions, the contradictions. There's no way we can live through or comprehend something so big that happened so long ago. We've…

— Nicholson Baker

I've had frustrated storytelling juices that have been lying dormant for a long time, and I guess the documentary was a way of me…

— Eric Bana

There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.

— Joshua Oppenheimer

Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasn’t there!…

— Carolyn Cassady

If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or…

— David Oyelowo

The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what…

— James Nachtwey

I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

— Mary Ellen Mark

By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.

— Natalie Merchant