Ambiguous Quote by Joe Berlinger

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.

— Dana Spiotta

A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film…

— Damian Pettigrew

I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.

— Keith Carter

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.

— Frederic Tcheng

When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.

— Sofia Coppola

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

— Edgar Degas

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they…

— Philippe Halsman

I think I'm really drawn to filmmakers and artists who are kind of pathologically incapable of thinking straightforward about film, and about life as…

— Jeremy Davies

The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

There's the instability of my attitude as an artist, the instability of our perception of the world, and the idea that with this mix,…

— Albert Serra

Anytime you look at someone in detail, you're putting the camera on that person. What I typically look for is one or two or…

— Erik Larson