I get very close to people when I’m shooting them.
ABIGAIL DISNEYHe has committed everything he’s had to it. If in fact he believes that every human life was sacred, I knew that if he had his conscious awakened
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I keep wondering if everybody on the political left had someone who they were separated at birth from.
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We would talk on the phone for hours, philosophically and theologically, about all of these issues.
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Then I would go shoot a scene with Rob and tell him all about Lucy. Eventually they wanted to know each other.
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People just don’t get as engaged in that kind of documentary – they don’t fall in love, they don’t cry, they don’t forget who they are, they don’t ride with you.
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I remember weeping behind the camera, because I was so moved by the way they connected.
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Then it’s too late! Follow your gut. That’s hard to do, but the only way to be original.
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There’s a real difference between a documentary that was all about facts and history and information.
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I’ve taken it from feminist friends, and I’ve taken it from lefty friends too. But that reassures me. If the right is attacking us and the left is attacking us, that’s exactly where we want to be.
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Without high functioning legal systems and a well regulated business environment there would have been no copyright protection for Mickey Mouse.
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That’s actually a massive step away from his original position, and he’s taking a lot of heat in his world just for being my friend, just for hanging around with me.
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When you worship an idol, you’re substituting a thing for the ultimate.
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Once we got to know each other, we had such similar impulses. We saw in a similar way, and we developed a strong friendship.
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My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you’ve gotten some approval for them.
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I worry that people will think that I have done what I’ve done just because I have access and resources. I hope people will know that I’m just as scared and lonely as anyone else!
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I knew he wouldn’t be able to close his eyes to it.
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