Author: Haskell Wexler

Quotes

Making a film - particularly what I think is a good film - is the result of a team of people, and the end result has many, many hands on it.

Making a film - particularly what I think is a good film - is the result of a team of people, and the end result has many, many hands on it.

- Haskell Wexler

As a cameraman, I am interested in images and truth. Today, people are conditioned to accept lies if they are commercial lies. What we don't see anymore is ethics.

As a cameraman, I am interested in images and truth. Today, people are conditioned to accept lies if they are commercial lies. What we don't see anymore is ethics.

- Haskell Wexler

People say they make movies to show what 'really happens.' But they only show what they choose to show.

People say they make movies to show what 'really happens.' But they only show what they choose to show.

- Haskell Wexler

I don't believe in publicity before a film is completed. It costs you money and wastes your energy, and you're inflating your balloon before you have a balloon.

I don't believe in publicity before a film is completed. It costs you money and wastes your energy, and you're inflating your balloon before you have a balloon.

- Haskell Wexler

There's a scene in 'Medium Cool' in which a young man walks by with a sign that says, 'Sanity, please.' If anything summarizes what I was feeling at that time, it is that sign.

There's a scene in 'Medium Cool' in which a young man walks by with a sign that says, 'Sanity, please.' If anything summarizes what I was feeling at that time, it is that sign.

- Haskell Wexler

I think that we should remember that social change can happen when people join together with some strength.

I think that we should remember that social change can happen when people join together with some strength.

- Haskell Wexler

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