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Haskell Wexler

"I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is an important issue. And it was an important issue to me, personally. And the whole question of when - when do you put the camera down or when do you keep shooting to get the shot. And a number of times in my life I've had that question hit me very hard."

Source : "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

Haskell Wexler

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“That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.”
“There's a lesson in everything. Looking for the lesson is grounding.”

Source : Interview with Reina Shay Broussard, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.”
“Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.”
“The parent who loves his child dearly but asks for nothing in return might qualify as a saint, but he will not qualify as a parent. For a child who can claim love without meeting any of the obligations of love will be a self-centered child and many such children have grown up in our time to become petulant lovers and sullen marriage partners because the promise of unconditional love has not been fulfilled.”
“Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.”
“Time is what matters. As time goes by, you and I will be carried inexorably into the mainstream of our period, even though weâ€™re unaware of what it is. And later, when they say that young men in the early Taisho era thought, dressed, talked, in such and such a way, theyâ€™ll be talking about you and me. Weâ€™ll all be lumped togetherâ€¦. In a few decades, people will see you and the people you despise as one and the same, a single entity.”
“I can't say whether or not I'll ever get married again, but I'm open to the possibility.”

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