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.
ABIGAIL DISNEYMy 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.
More Abigail Disney Quotes
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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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These are two people who would never have overlapped in any other way or context.
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I get very close to people when I’m shooting them. We would go and shoot a scene with Lucy, and I would spend the whole time telling her about Rob.
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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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You probably couldn’t have found much daylight between the NRA and the Disney company.
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I remember weeping behind the camera, because I was so moved by the way they connected.
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We brought to the garden at Rob’s office and just sat and watched what unfolded.
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As we realized we had richer, vérité kind of people, what we wanted to do is focus in on the vérité story.
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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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We would talk on the phone for hours, philosophically and theologically, about all of these issues.
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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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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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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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A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.
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My family achieved success not in spite of, but because of the American system of taxation. After all, without reliable and safe roads there’d have been no Disneyland
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