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If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

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If you go to pretty much everywhere in the developing world, you will find Bob Marley murals, and you'll find people playing his music.

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When you look at almost every submarine movie, to some degree or another, there's this 'Moby Dick' element, this Ahab element to them.

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Put someone on a horse looking cold and wet, and they don't have to act. They just are cold and wet.

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We're all fascinated by the way other people live their lives, how they cope with hardship and triumph, what they put in their home movies and family albums.

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The first documentary I saw that tried to show the actual experience of being a soldier in combat was 'The Anderson Platoon,' by French director Pierre Schoendoerffer, which won the Oscar for best documentary in 1967.

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Although 'The Anderson Platoon' was what we would now call an 'embedded film' - with all the ambiguities that term implies - somehow Schoendoerffer got away with showing things as they really were from a grunt's perspective.

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Despite the limitations of the bulky 16mm camera and 10-minute film magazines, 'The Anderson Platoon' feels as spontaneous and fresh as any films that have come out of the Afghan or Iraq wars.

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In war films, even more than in other kinds of documentary, we've come to think that shaky, poor-quality footage is somehow more authentic than something classically 'well shot.'

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There were many times during the filming of 'Touching the Void' when I wondered why I had ever thought I wanted to make this film.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Actor

Born: Unknown

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