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Brett Morgen

(1968) Screenwriter

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Brett Morgen is a screenwriter.

Quick Facts About Brett Morgen

Born: January 1, 1968
Profession: Screenwriter

About Brett Morgen

[Wikidata] American filmmaker, director and producer... | [Wikipedia] Brett D. Morgen is an American documentary filmmaker. His directorial credits include The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002), Crossfire Hurricane (2012), Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015), Jane (2017), and Moonage Daydream (2022).

Quotes by Brett Morgen

I never met Kurt Cobain, but I felt like I got to know him in a manner probably more intimate than anyone…

Cobain

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Sometimes, you chase the moment and you can never catch it. Films take so long to make that you can never anticipate…

Cinema

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When I grew up, we had no babysitters and nobody every observed us. People don't parent like that today. They're very hands-on;…

Babysitter

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Kurt [Cobain], from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold…

Cobain

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Everybody feels protective and possessive about Kurt [Cobain] , and I think that can be attributed to his unique gift, an ability…

Ability

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As a generation, Generation X or whatever we were called, we were not being nurtured. We didn't have Obama. We didn't have…

Bills

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My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I…

Cinema

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You have Kurt [Cobain], and he's singing about your experiences. They're our collective experiences.

Cobain

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Kurt [Cobain ]was a feminist. A lot of the bashing against Courtney [Love] I think has to deal with gender bias and…

Attention

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I have three children, and they have never spent a minute unsupervised in their lives. My generation overcompensated like mad. I'm not…

Children

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One thing about Kurt [Cobain] is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist,…

Art

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You can't divorce yourself from your own life experiences.

Divorce

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Every second counts. We are only on this earth for a short amount of time, and we get to decide how we…

Better place

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The only people who really love the '80s are millennials. We had Reagan and Bush for our entire youth, the culture was…

80s

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I've never had access to another person's art and work or, particularly, someone who is as prolific and was able to externalize…

Able

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I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites…

Cinema

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Oftentimes when people make movies about the '80s, they go back and look at '80s films, [but] those look nothing like the…

80s

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