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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.

~D. A. Pennebaker

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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.

~D. A. Pennebaker

Topics: Audience Editing Eventually Evidence Exactly Exactly What Finding Go Going Happened Happening Inventing Itself Makes Making Play Present Putting Sense Show Stage Story Together Want Way You

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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.

~D. A. Pennebaker

Topics: Animals Companions Necessarily Our Planet

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One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.

~D. A. Pennebaker

Topics: Animals Away Dealt Found Incredible Intelligence Levels One Of The Things Out People Really Recognize Right Right Away Things Who

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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!

~D. A. Pennebaker

Topics: Cameras Entirely Film Heard Involved New Were

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It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story.

~D. A. Pennebaker

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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.

~D. A. Pennebaker

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I had maybe heard 'The Times Are A-Changing' on the radio, but I had no idea who Dylan was. No idea.

~D. A. Pennebaker

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I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.

~D. A. Pennebaker

Topics: Appreciated Could Else Filming Idea Kind Know Like Liked Maybe Much Musician Musicians Nobody Nobody Else Same Same Time Them Time

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When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.

~D. A. Pennebaker

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: July 15th, 1925

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