Frederick Wiseman Quotes
- I think I have an obligation, to the people who have consented to be in the film, to make a film that is fair to…
- You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are…
- I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for…
- Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.
- My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.
- Everything about a movie is manipulation.
- I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition…
- Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.