Liz Garbus

I think all of us, looking back on our careers and our lives, there'll probably be a "road not taken" that we'll…

— Liz Garbus

The Ancient Romans did not regard acts of genius to emanate from within an individual - but rather saw it as a…

— Liz Garbus

Managers all over the world will go crazy when their artists are not touting the party line and making things pretty in…

— Liz Garbus

You know, and the fact that Nina Simone had to start playing in clubs and sing because her parents had moved north…

— Liz Garbus

When your entire life is focused around one goal and one goal only, and you have no other pursuits, it enables you…

— Liz Garbus

There is so much investment in it of people's labor time that it will never make money. But there are other documentaries…

— Liz Garbus

In the Soviet Union, for instance, the pressure on the chess stars was immense. When Boris Spassky came home after losing that…

— Liz Garbus

If you look at the gifted sportsman, like Tiger Woods, or Ryan Giggs, you can see how they have been built up…

— Liz Garbus

I guess what I get excited about when I'm thinking about projects is that toothy, complex area of goodness and badness and…

— Liz Garbus

Bobby Fischer was hugely important for the American chess community because it put chess on the map - he made it possible…

— Liz Garbus

I don't think you make documentary films to get your country house. If you're trying to gamble on that, you've very foolish.

— Liz Garbus

I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail.

— Liz Garbus

It has a lot to do with just sort of trust in the relationship that builds between the filmmaker and the subject.…

— Liz Garbus

Each project draws you in on its own merits as opposed to an intellectual choice of, "Well, I'm going to shift from…

— Liz Garbus

Every film I make I feel like I am getting a mini-masters degree, it's a wonderful life path and you get to…

— Liz Garbus