"My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences."

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Frederick Wiseman

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“Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.”
“The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.”
“A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation. Elephants, for instance. Once molecules have learnt to compete and to create other molecules in their own image, elephants, and things resembling elephants, will in due course be found roaming around the countryside ... Some of the things resembling elephants will be men.”
“I worked in the mail room at CAA when I was in high school. I worked in the literary department, too. That was my after school job, believe it or not: I would read manuscripts and then evaluations on whether or not I thought they'd make good movies. Which was fascinating and kind of hilarious to me at the time.”
“The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book,”

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“Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the successful ones get repeated. By natural selection and then through repetition they become probable, more habitual.”
“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.”
“Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?.”

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