Haskell Wexler Quotes

In Virginia Woolf I had a thing which the grips called the paraplegic which was a wheelchair thing that I had made up years before where I could stand on this bicycle-like device and be pushed down the hall, and then step off it with a handheld camera.

Haskell Wexler

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• Virginia Woolf
• Paraplegic

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• In Virginia Woolf I had a thing which the grips called the paraplegic which was a wheelchair thing that I had made up years before where I could stand on this bicycle-like device and be pushed down the hall, and then step off it with a handheld camera.

  

  Haskell Wexler
  • Camera
  • Device
  • Virginia Woolf