Conversation Quote by Davis Guggenheim

The more I work, the more I try to keep myself open like a raw nerve. When I feel things in a story, I…

— Davis Guggenheim

Our schools are not geared toward building, preparing kids for the modern economy.

— Davis Guggenheim

Underneath it, in 'An Inconvenient Truth', we talked a lot about the unspoken decisions that people make in their heads.

— Davis Guggenheim

I was going to direct the movie 'Training Day', and I got fired. Denzel Washington didn't want me to direct the movie.

— Davis Guggenheim

I don't like it when a filmmaker has an agenda and I don't know it. When the contract is not clear, that's when there's…

— Davis Guggenheim

I'm interested in a realization that's hiding beneath the surface, and maybe that's what documentaries can do best, is to try to unpack that…

— Davis Guggenheim

You look at the trajectories; and as our schools have declined, you see the other alternatives increase, private school, home schooling, all of the…

— Davis Guggenheim

Too many documentaries are intellectual exercises. I want documentaries to be alive.

— Davis Guggenheim

Is being negative more journalistic for some reason? I don't know. But I don't set out to make puff pieces and I don't set…

— Davis Guggenheim

As a filmmaker, the most dramatic and the most dread-inspiring thing is when the audience can see more than the characters themselves can see.

— Davis Guggenheim

I'm not one of these guys who thinks testing is the only thing. But testing is a piece but there has to be more…

— Davis Guggenheim

If you look at great reform, it always starts from parents. If you look at the movement to reform the special education movement, it…

— Davis Guggenheim