Cinema Quote by Brian Lindstrom Download Open image “If I weren't making documentary films, I suppose I'd be teaching.” — Brian Lindstrom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Documentaries Documentary films Education Film Ifs Teaching
I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work. — Arnon Goldfinger Copy Share Image
I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
What I've always thought I would do is make a bunch of movies and then stop to teach for awhile. And then just teach… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
In teaching, I like being able to present clips from movies on VHS or DVD and then talk about them. That's what this movie… — Thom Andersen Copy Share Image
If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa. — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just… — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I knew as a young boy that addiction and alcoholism afflict people - good, loving people - in profound ways, and that some people… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make sure that… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
