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Frederick Wiseman

I am bad at cultural generalizations but I would venture to say that by a wide margin there is less hypocrisy about sex in France than in America.

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My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences.

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I think I've learned a lot about how to make movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how similar problems are resolved in other forms. The issues in all forms are the same in an abstract sense, aren't they? Characterization, abstraction, metaphor, passage of time. . . Whether it's a movie, a novel, a play, or a poem, those issues exist. And each person resolves them differently.

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I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.

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Even if I know I'm going to go to a church, I don't know what the minister's going to say.

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I do not think that my films or films by any other filmmaker represent "THE TRUTH. " I do not feel the need to categorize my films or anyone else's.

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I don't mind being recognized, it's just that I have a bit of social anxiety, and this situation has increased it. The idea of having to be 'on' and social at random times can be difficult. I'll be out in the morning, someone comes and takes a picture, and then I discover I have toothpaste on my face.

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The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. . . . His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.

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This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us.

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