I get very close to people when I’m shooting them.
ABIGAIL DISNEYPeople 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.
More Abigail Disney Quotes
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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 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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He 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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When I sat there in 1971 and watched my grandfather open Walt Disney World, I was a little 11-year-old girl who worshiped the ground he walked on.
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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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There’s a real difference between a documentary that was all about facts and history and information.
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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 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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There are very few people who have committed more to the pro-life discourse than Rob has. He’s spent time in jail. He has really lived it.
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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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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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When you worship an idol, you’re substituting a thing for the ultimate.
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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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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’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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