Felt Quote by Brian Lindstrom

My grandpa could go days, weeks, even months without a drink but if he took that first drink, he couldn't stop. Once, when I…

— Brian Lindstrom

We all use dishwashers every day and yet none of us would say that we're experts on dishwashers, but somehow we all think we're…

— Brian Lindstrom

I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the audience would…

— Brian Lindstrom

I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express…

— Brian Lindstrom

It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.

— Brian Lindstrom

In documentary you sometimes see the tyranny of the linear, but what I've noticed in the last ten years in narrative film is the…

— Brian Lindstrom

If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story across. You'd…

— Brian Lindstrom

If I weren't making documentary films, I suppose I'd be teaching.

— Brian Lindstrom

The visual quality of the cameras now is such that you can shoot with available light, and if people are willing to mount a…

— Brian Lindstrom

I knew as a young boy that addiction and alcoholism afflict people - good, loving people - in profound ways, and that some people…

— Brian Lindstrom

I think it would be really hypocritical of me to make the films I make, where I delve into people's lives, to say that…

— Brian Lindstrom

One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it…

— Brian Lindstrom