"When I was in Vietnam with Jane Fonda, I was shooting a farmer in a field - just a pastoral scene. And while I was shooting him, an explosion occurred right - he blew up right in my lens, so to speak. And he had stepped on a landmine."

-- Haskell Wexler

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“A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.”
“I think being raised by a single mother put me on the outside, and I would watch my mothers married friends and think, Why does she put him down in public? or, Why is he so rude to her? It seemed to me that there were very few marriages where the couple were genuinely in a supportive, loving partnership.”
“I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.”
“The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities...there's a high probability of such an attempt.”
“I learned that life, it's beautiful to be alive. I saw a lot of people dead there. When I got out of there, I was happy I was out, happy I was alive.”
“I think that all things are spirit and are derived from spirit. When you look at life from that perspective, it takes on a whole new meaning.”
“By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.”
“If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.”

Source : "The Cruise". Documentary, 1998.

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