Frederick Wiseman Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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

• 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.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Thinking, Needs, Film

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• I think I have an obligation, to the people who have consented to be in the film, to make a film that is fair to their experience. The editing of my films is a long and selective process. I do feel that when I cut a sequence, I have an obligation to the people who are in it, to cut it so that it fairly represents what I felt was going on at the time, in the original event. I don't try and cut it to meet the standards of a producer or a network or a television show.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Cutting, Thinking, Editing

• My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Goal, Different, Film

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

  Frederick Wiseman

  Jobs, Editors, Narrative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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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