Frederick Wiseman
Frederick Wiseman
Frederick Wisemanis an American filmmaker, documentarian, and theatrical director...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth1 January 1930
CountryUnited States of America
Frederick Wiseman quotes about
thinking people style
I'm very careful of not being critical of other people's movies, which work in different styles. I think some of my movies can be interpreted as critical of their subjects.
lying manipulation you-like-it
Of course there's conscious manipulation! Everything about a movie is manipulation ... If you like it, it's an interpretation. If you don't like it, it's a lie - but everything about these movies is a distortion."
real ruins documentaries
Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.
mean problem knows
It is always a problem to know what an image means.
character thinking novelists
I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.
cutting thinking editing
I think I have an obligation, to the people who have consented to be in the film, to make a film that is fair to their experience. The editing of my films is a long and selective process. I do feel that when I cut a sequence, I have an obligation to the people who are in it, to cut it so that it fairly represents what I felt was going on at the time, in the original event. I don't try and cut it to meet the standards of a producer or a network or a television show.