Brett Morgen Quotes
My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly interested in designing and creating documentaries like fiction, so it was a natural evolution to try and embark on doing a dramatic narrative.
Quotes to Explore
-
Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.
-
I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.
-
We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
-
In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.
-
Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.
-
The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
-
I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn't see a clearer picture: what's the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?
-
Golf and dating don't mix.
-
I choose to express myself.
-
I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.
-
Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.
-
It's weird, but I don't feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?
-
'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.
-
The whole system of society tells you what to do.
-
Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this is where long-term investors should be focused.
-
The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.
-
Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.
-
I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.
-
I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
-
My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly interested in designing and creating documentaries like fiction, so it was a natural evolution to try and embark on doing a dramatic narrative.
