Ben Maddow Quotes

United States, Screenwriter
August 7, 1909 – October, 9, 1992.

Benjamin D. Maddow (August 7, 1909 in Passaic, New Jersey – October 9, 1992 in Los Angeles, California) was a prolific screenwriter and documentarian from the 1930s through the 1970s. Educated at Columbia University, Maddow began his career working within the American documentary movement in the 1930s.

Also known as Film Director

Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.

Ben Maddow
Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all overthe place for no sensible reason. A gun fires of its own accord and a man is shot. And a broken-down old house no good for anything but chasing kids has to trip over us. Blind accidents. What can you do against blind accidents?

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- Kids
- Reason
- Accidents

The persistent problem in photography is how to look at it.

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- Problem
- Photograhy
The slice of time has become enormous in importance, and its hidden meaning is now perfectly plain, though so complex that it can hardly be written down.

Ben Maddow
- Importance
- Plain
- Slice
I feel certain that the largest part of all photographs ever taken or being taken or ever to be taken, is and will continue to be, portraits. This is not only true, it is also necessary. We are not solitary mammals, like the elephant, the whale and the ape. What is most profoundly felt between us, even if hidden, will reappear in our portraits of one another.

Ben Maddow
One way or another we all work for our vice.

Ben Maddow
- Work
- Way
- Vice