Pamela Yates Quotes

• Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.

  Pamela Yates

  Essence, Knowing, Judging

  "'Granito: How to Nail a Dictator': New Film Tracks Struggle for Justice After Guatemalan Genocide". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.alternet.org. September 15, 2011.

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• Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling.

  Pamela Yates

  Jobs, Victory, Calling

  "Pamela Yates on Her New Documentary Used in Guatemalan Dictator Genocide Trial". Interview with Vanessa Erazo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2013.

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• I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.

  Pamela Yates

  Struggle, Cinema, Use

  "LatinoBuzz: Pamela Yates on How Her Documentary Helped Jail a Guatemalan Dictator for Genocide" by Vanessa Erazo, www.indiewire.com. May 22, 2013.

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• I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.

  Pamela Yates

  Artist, Rights, Filmmaker

  "LatinoBuzz: Pamela Yates on How Her Documentary Helped Jail a Guatemalan Dictator for Genocide" by Vanessa Erazo, www.indiewire.com. May 22, 2013.

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• My advice to emerging documentary filmmakers would be: try to find other people, a group, a cooperative that you can work with. Filmmaking is hard and lonely and decidedly unglamorous. Find like-minded souls and share the joy and the misery.

  Pamela Yates

  Lonely, People, Joy

  "LatinoBuzz: Pamela Yates on How Her Documentary Helped Jail a Guatemalan Dictator for Genocide" by Vanessa Erazo, www.indiewire.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult.

  Pamela Yates

  Paper, Difficult, Great Writers

  "LatinoBuzz: Pamela Yates on How Her Documentary Helped Jail a Guatemalan Dictator for Genocide" by Vanessa Erazo, www.indiewire.com. May 22, 2013.

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• The digital revolution has had a democratizing effect. Now anyone can be a filmmaker, but to be a good filmmaker is as hard as it ever was.

  Pamela Yates

  Digital Revolution, Filmmaker, Effects

  "LatinoBuzz: Pamela Yates on How Her Documentary Helped Jail a Guatemalan Dictator for Genocide" by Vanessa Erazo, www.indiewire.com. May 22, 2013.

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• I truly value the cinema experience, the tribal gathering in the dark to watch something larger than life. I like to sit in the first row with no heads in front of mine, and become one with the screen. I always stay for the complete credits so I can linger in the film's story just a little longer.

  Pamela Yates

  Dark, Gathering, Watches

  "LatinoBuzz: Pamela Yates on How Her Documentary Helped Jail a Guatemalan Dictator for Genocide" by Vanessa Erazo, www.indiewire.com. May 22, 2013.

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• I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema and documentaries.

  Pamela Yates

  Art, Avid, House

  "LatinoBuzz: Pamela Yates on How Her Documentary Helped Jail a Guatemalan Dictator for Genocide" by Vanessa Erazo, www.indiewire.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I tell.

  Pamela Yates

  Destiny, Doe, Stories

  "Pamela Yates on Her New Documentary Used in Guatemalan Dictator Genocide Trial". Interview with Vanessa Erazo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2013.

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• When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out.

  Pamela Yates

  Years, Documentary Films, Documentaries

  "LatinoBuzz: Pamela Yates on How Her Documentary Helped Jail a Guatemalan Dictator for Genocide" by Vanessa Erazo, www.indiewire.com. May 22, 2013.

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• If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder.

  Pamela Yates

  Hard Work, People, Want

  "Pamela Yates on Her New Documentary Used in Guatemalan Dictator Genocide Trial". Interview with Vanessa Erazo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2013.

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• Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.

  Pamela Yates

  Rights, Law, Use

  "LatinoBuzz: Pamela Yates on How Her Documentary Helped Jail a Guatemalan Dictator for Genocide" by Vanessa Erazo, www.indiewire.com. May 22, 2013.

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• The biggest misconception about me and my work is that I only make political films denouncing human-rights atrocities, even though all of my films are about people fighting for their rights and their quest for justice. My films aren't depressing, are very human, and always offer a way forward.

  Pamela Yates

  Depressing, Fighting, Rights

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I believe that those who believe in the power of human rights must find new ways to address economic injustice - and on a scale commensurate with the millions of people around the world that are mired in poverty.

  Pamela Yates

  Believe, Rights, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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