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“Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries.”

Pirjo Honkasalo

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As my films are born at the moment when they are reflected into another person's mind and memories, there are no misconceptions. I totally…

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When I make a documentary I shoot very little but I hang around with my camera for a long time. I look at the…

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I had worked in fiction a lot before I started making documentaries, but when I was around 32 or 33-years-old I suddenly got so…

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I went to England when I was 13-years=old and then I went again when I was 14. When I went for the second time…

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In all my documentaries I did all the camera work, but in fiction I didn't want to do it myself. I think the machinery…

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When I auditioned actors I never make them act. I choose a long symphony, then I tell them to sit down and I play…

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At 13 I was someone that didn't have a personality yet. It's a fascinating period in a human life. It's so exciting because you…

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I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A…

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This is going to sound crazy, especially in America where there is a total inflation of the word "love," but in a sense you have to love the people in front of the camera. There has to be trust between the one who is behind the camera and the people on the other side, so that they can relax. They…

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I went to film school when I was 17, and of course when you are very young you think that there is nothing else in the world except film. At some point I started getting hungry to see something else. For five years I didn't make any films, I was traveling around the world, writing for newspapers, working in theater,…

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We exaggerate the difference between documentary and fiction. I think that on some level a fiction film is also a documentary on the actors.…

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If you take a big epic novel and you shoot it, when you get to the editing room you notice that it has 2…

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Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James Brown recently; and, oddly, I found a lot in common between Jobs and Brown. Jobs was also a fantastic performer, put on an extraordinary live show at his product launches, but he could also be ruthless, cruel and…

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