D. A. Pennebaker Quotes
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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Before the camera, you only had secondhand takes - someone had to tell you what they saw or draw a picture of it or sing a song. Because of the camera, sometimes to our horror, we now know everything that happens in the world - things that before we were sheltered from.
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Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us. They work in the real world and earn money and are pretty good at it.
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I wanted James Carville to never die. I wanted Dylan, the poet, to not die. I wanted to put these people in a place where they would be inviolate. It wasn't enough to have a still life of them. I wanted to surround them with the lives they led.
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Nobody would let us do 'Crisis' again.
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It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story.
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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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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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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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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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...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.