Frederick Wiseman Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Church, Ministers, Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's rare in a documentary film that you have a repetitive act. So when you do, you can shoot it in different ways so that you have more choices when you're sitting down to edit that sequence six months later.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Choices, Sitting Down, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it's very rare that any sequence is the sequence that is shot.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Editing, Issues, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Doctors, Lawyer, Newspapers

  "Toronto International Film Festival 2002: an Interview With Frederick Wiseman, Director of the Last Letter". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. October 02, 2002.

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• Unfortunately, I never played an instrument. I can't blame my parents, but I wish I had had music lessons. It's odd because I think I have a good sense of rhythm, as they say in some fields. But I don't know anything about music.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Thinking, Parent, Wish

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Sex, America, Hypocrisy

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I'm in no way suggesting that I succeed, but it's inspiring to read somebody who does succeed and from whom, in a general way, you can draw examples and nourishment and sustenance.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Example, Doe, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One's relationship to time is complicated, and sometimes a day will drag on forever and sometimes it'll be over in a flash. When you look back, "I'm old," after 40 or 60 years, I can't believe I'm as old as I am.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Believe, Years, Forever

  "Frederick Wiseman on his new film and his dream of shooting in the White House". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2015.

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