Haskell Wexler Quotes
There is a very particular feeling I get when I have the camera in my hand, looking at an actor talk, knowing that what I’m shooting will end up on the screen.

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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, 'Just be yourself!' She also eats dessert every single day.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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I think people like it when you have a bit of personality.
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I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.
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I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.
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Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else.
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It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.
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I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.
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The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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I am the hero of Africa.
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Your neighbors will be envious of your 3D printer - and if they're not, just print new neighbors. Design them so they'll like to bring you pies, maybe, or want to do your yard work for you.
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I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.
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The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.
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I'm a full-contact actor, meaning that I love to act in my toes and in my fingers, and I just try to keep it surprising.
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There is a very particular feeling I get when I have the camera in my hand, looking at an actor talk, knowing that what I’m shooting will end up on the screen.