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Joe Berlinger

(1961) Documentary Filmmaker United States

21 quotes in 144 categories

Joe Berlinger is a documentary filmmaker from the United States, best known for Paradise lost 2.

Quick Facts About Joe Berlinger

Born: October 30, 1961
Nationality: United States
Profession: Documentary Filmmaker
Notable works: Paradise lost 2

About Joe Berlinger

Joseph Berlinger is an American documentary filmmaker and producer. Particularly focused on true crime documentaries, Berlinger's films and docu-series draw attention to social justice issues in the US and abroad in such films as Brother's Keeper, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, Crude, Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger and Intent To Destroy: Death, Denial and Depiction.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Directors Guild of America Award

Quotes by Joe Berlinger

The Metallica film was like this incredible life experience where I learned the most through guys that stereotypically you would think couldn't…

Banging

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I mean, "The Jinx" is an amazing piece of cinema and amazing television moment, it`s rare documentarians can feel the direct impact…

Cinema

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I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly…

Believe

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I'm an observer in life, not a participant. That's why I'm a documentarian who looks through a camera. I'm not a touchy-feely…

Cameras

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My attitude is, I am not a lawyer; I am not a doctor; I am not a scientist. I am a filmmaker…

Attitude

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I felt like the universe was tapping me on the shoulder saying, "You're the guy who has to tell this story because…

Felt

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Chevron has wrapped itself in some pretty good arguments that make you scratch your head. The moral responsibility is certainly at its…

Argument

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If people spend two hours thinking about the direction of their own lives and can relate to the stories they see on…

Hours

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The filmmaker is not telling you what to think.

Filmmaker

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You have to remain open to the situation that you're filming otherwise you might miss the story.

Might

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The world is watching, and you better be fair.

Fairs

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I don`t know the facts surrounding Andrew Jarecki`s work. I think it`s a triumph of television. But it does raise troubling issues…

Addresses

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Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

Bites

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What you hope, what you're trusting the filmmaker to do, is to capture the emotional truth of the situation.

Capture

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I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience…

Ambiguous

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I like to blow up stereotypes, like taking the icons of metal, the epitome of male testosterone and showing them as regular…

Blow

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One of the great ironies of my career is that people imagine me as some sort of hardcore metal guy because of…

Careers

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If a concert film is an experience of the musicianship without critiquing it, then this, too, is dropping you into a world…

Cinema

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There`s a fine line between balanced journalism and trial by television.

Balanced

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Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never…

Condensation

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I actually have come to believe that if people were more connected to their fellow human beings, if we all felt more…

Believe

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