Terry Zwigoff Quotes

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• That would be getting up at 5 am... I don't understand why film's shoot such brutal hours. I think it'd be worth it to not…
• It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a…
• I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa...…
• Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't know…
• Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them…
• I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills.
• Chicago always hit me as such a gloomy place - I just remember all the snow getting dirty as soon as it would fall, all…
• I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.
• The films I want to make, I really want to be passionate about.
• I collect old Coon Chicken Inn memorabilia. I collect black memorabilia, like old minstrel posters. It was a real place. There was one in Seattle,…
• Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.
• Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.
• The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios, are all business school grads.
• Whereas my producer literally worked on this thing for 10 years and because I gave that presenter credit to David Lynch, she to this day…
• And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to…
• I think the other misconceptions when the film came out, he was very upset that it was so widely released and so widely seen. And…
• So I told Robert from the start that if we couldn't get Charles and Max to take part, but especially Charles, that I didn't want…
• Well, that was certainly - to me, until we could film in Charles' room, I didn't even want to bother filming anything else. And in…

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