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Kim Longinotto

(1952) Film Director

18 quotes in 118 categories

Kim Longinotto is a film director.

Quick Facts About Kim Longinotto

Born: January 1, 1952
Profession: Film Director

About Kim Longinotto

[Wikidata] British filmmaker... | [Wikipedia] Kim Longinotto is a British documentary film maker, well known for making films that highlight the plight of female victims of oppression or discrimination. Longinotto has made more than 20 films, usually featuring inspiring women and girls at their core. Her subjects have included female genital mu

Quotes by Kim Longinotto

The magic of documentary is that I keep being surprised and amazed by the things I film.

Amazed

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I meet all these American filmmakers that film for months and months, and it's a mystery to me. I couldn't make a…

Cinema

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I don't make 'issue' films. I like making films about rebels or pioneers or people that are doing something.

Cinema

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It makes it very easy. I have a beginning, middle, and end, and I don't film for long - about 20 hours…

Chance

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It's always scary making a film as I never set anything up or ask anyone to do anything, so I worry that…

Asks

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I don't have any advice at all. I think we all make the films that reflect the kind of people we are;…

Advice

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I want every scene to feel electric and I try to finish the filming period with a clear trajectory: a beginning, a…

Affected

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I know that sounds contradictory - you're going on a journey, but once you know who your characters are, you become more…

Character

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I watch mainly fiction. The films I like watching are films where you see people change, like with Boyhood. You see a…

Accept me

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I remember very clearly when I found my first soulmate, it was actually in my late 20s, that wonderful feeling of being…

Accepted

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Personally, I don't like watching films about victims - people where you're meant to think, 'Oh, this is terrible,' and you go…

Cinema

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People want black and white answers, but it's not one thing or another. I think the only way we're going to make…

Answers

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Those are the films I want to make. I don't want to make a film about, "Oh, those poor prostitutes!" Or "Oh,…

Cinema

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I try to make films where the audience forgets the filmmaking and gets engrossed in the story as it unfolds. I don't…

Audience

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I don't want the people I'm with on this journey to feel like I'm filming them all the time. I don't want…

All time

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I'm not generalizing anymore about men and women, because I think these old terms of "masculine" and "feminine" are going very fast…

Categories

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The biggest misconception about me is perhaps that I film all the time and film everything randomly. The truth is I film…

Cinema

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There's no point in making something if you're not falling in love with the people you're filming and you want them to…

Being the best

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