D. A. Pennebaker Quotes
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You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing - it lets you speculate.
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I would never say no to anything that sounded interesting! The thing I like about making films is that the adventure just begins when you pick up the camera.
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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.
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...candid still photography had taken over... What was interesting was that the photographs came without any intention of instructing you... You're like a cat looking out the window. You don't have to even know what you're watching, but you're watching it, and you're watching it very accurately.
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I think nowadays people are so used taking the camera to the family picnic - so people are less surprised by films made of them, like home movies.
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I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists -- there's no room for democracy in making film.
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We're a family operation. There's not many of us. We have a couple people who come from time to time who work with us. Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us.
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