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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.

~D. A. Pennebaker

Topics: Camera Cat Clues Detective Devices Discovery Does Find Glass Judging Magnifying Performance Process Something Sound Things Think Uses Using Watching Way Witness You I Think

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Before the camera, you only had secondhand takes - someone had to tell you what they saw or draw a picture of it or sing a song. Because of the camera, sometimes to our horror, we now know everything that happens in the world - things that before we were sheltered from.

~D. A. Pennebaker

Topics: Because Before Camera Draw Everything Had Happens Horror Know Now Only Our Picture Saw Secondhand Sheltered Sing Someone Sometimes Song Takes Tell Things Were World You

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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

~D. A. Pennebaker

Topics: Determination Film Head Made Out Somebody

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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?

~D. A. Pennebaker

Topics: Came Center Cultural Cut Did Doing Edit Ever First First Thing French Got Imagine Knots Little Off Recorder Recording Set Some Square Thing Tied Together Up Very Wanted Wire Work You

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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.

~D. A. Pennebaker

Topics: Basically Books Category Comic Comic Books Different End Entertainment Films Hollywood Kind People See Seriously Side Still Take Them Things Think Totally Up View Way Which Will I Think

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Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us. They work in the real world and earn money and are pretty good at it.

~D. A. Pennebaker

Topics: Afford Earn Filmmakers Good Money Nor Pretty Pretty Good Real Real World Sons The Real World Them Themselves Two Us Work World

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Nobody would let us do 'Crisis' again.

~D. A. Pennebaker

Topics: Again Crisis Let Us Nobody Us Would

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When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'

~D. A. Pennebaker

Topics: Back Correcting Could Did Had Jane Kind Like Longer Look Looking Over Really Shoulder Wanted

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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.

~D. A. Pennebaker

Topics: Around Assistants Camera Different Fast Get Go Got Important Important Thing Least Lights Make Opposite Out People Room Running Setting Then Thing Three Up Want Way Will You

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I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.

~D. A. Pennebaker

Topics: Expensive Home Just More Movies Others Some Than Think I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: July 15th, 1925

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