D. A. Pennebaker quote: "You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it

I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or act...
D. A. PENNEBAKER

Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be ...
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
D. A. PENNEBAKER

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

Nobody would let us do 'Crisis' again.
D. A. PENNEBAKER

I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be ther...
D. A. PENNEBAKER

When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lew...
D. A. PENNEBAKER

To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
D. A. PENNEBAKER

Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you...
D. A. PENNEBAKER

I wanted James Carville to never die. I wanted Dylan, the poet, to not die. I wanted to put these pe...
D. A. PENNEBAKER

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

Before the camera, you only had secondhand takes - someone had to tell you what they saw or draw a p...
D. A. PENNEBAKER

Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us. They work in the...
D. A. PENNEBAKER

Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anythi...
D. A. PENNEBAKER

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

One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals,...
D. A. PENNEBAKER

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

We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempti...
D. A. PENNEBAKER

Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman...
D. A. PENNEBAKER

When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I c...
D. A. PENNEBAKER

When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. Yo...
D. A. PENNEBAKER

I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying gl...
D. A. PENNEBAKER

The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a...
D. A. PENNEBAKER

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
D. A. PENNEBAKER

If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, peo...
D. A. PENNEBAKER

Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody&...
D. A. PENNEBAKER

I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, m...
D. A. PENNEBAKER

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

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

If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very ...
D. A. PENNEBAKER

As an outsider, this one-shot policy strikes me as a little extreme, ... Somehow, we view mental hea...
JAMES PENNEBAKER

[The answer, usually, is no. Wisdom is a quality that defies easy definition but psychologists who s...
JAMES PENNEBAKER

If you can't handle it, quit.
JAMES PENNEBAKER

Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most...
JAMES PENNEBAKER

I do think that there is a hunger in the land for a vision of confessional Christianity that is robu...
D. A. CARSON

There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people fee...
D. A. CARSON

God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said...
D. A. CARSON

No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, ...
D. A. CARSON

Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness...
D A BENTON

The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every ge...
D. A. CARSON

Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness...
D A BENTON

Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness...
D. A. BENTON

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.
DON ALAN PENNEBAKER

I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists -- there's no room for democracy in m...
DON ALAN PENNEBAKER

People who reported having a terrible traumatic experience and who kept the experience a secret had ...
JAMES W. PENNEBAKER

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It became by mission to work with young people to help show them the way, not save them! But help th...
JOSE A. AVILES ED. D.

Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion ...
D. D. FIELD

Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 We cannot understand the depth of the Christian doctrine...
D. D. WILLIAMS

Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397 In short: in all his ways and walks, whether as touch...
D. D. WILLIAMS

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
A. A. MILNE

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A. A. MILNE

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
A. A. MILNE

Tiggers don't like honey.
A. A. MILNE

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him w...
A. A. MILNE

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
A. A. MILNE

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong place...
A. A. MILNE

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
A. A. MILNE

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A. A. MILNE

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for hims...
A. A. MILNE

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer t...
A. A. MILNE

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
A. A. MILNE

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enou...
A. A. HODGE

Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do...
A. A. MILNE

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h...
A. A. MILNE

The purpose of the present course is the deepening and development of difficulties underlying contem...
A. A. BLASOV

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems...
A A MILNE

Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when th...
A. A. MILNE

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A. A. MILNE

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. MILNE

Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you.
A. A. MILNE

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bi...
A. A. MILNE

Silence is a text easy to misread.
A. A. ATTANASIO

Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is ...
A. A. MILNE

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
A. A. MILNE

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
A. A. MILNE

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you see...
A. A. MILNE

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is onl...
A. A. MILNE

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
A. A. MILNE

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to...
A. A. MILNE

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing ...
A. A. MILNE

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy...
A. A. MILNE

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - ...
A. A. MILNE

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to ...
A. A. MILNE

Oh, help!” said Pooh. “I’d better go back.”
“Oh, bother!” said Pooh. “I shall hav...
MILNE, A. A.

How would it be,” said Pooh slowly, “if, as soon as we’re out of sight of this Pit, we try to ...
MILNE, A. A.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
A. A. MILNE

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. MILNE

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
A. A. MILNE

For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fift...
A. A. MILNE

"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
A. A. MILNE

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A. A. MILNE

I have decided to catch a Heffalump.
A. A. MILNE

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be foun...
A. A. HODGE

The wind was against them now, and Piglet's ears streamed behind him like banners as he fought his w...
MILNE, A. A.

The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name and they say golf is a quiet game
A. A. MILNE

An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play, it is always possible to get w...
A. A. MILNE

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to you...
A. A. MILNE

I'm giving him a Useful Pot to Keep Things In.
A. A. HODGE

How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE

You must never go down to the end of the town if you don't go down with me.
A. A. HODGE

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequat...
A. A. HODGE

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enou...
A. A. HODGE

It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. ...
A. A. MILNE

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - / Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
A. A. MILNE

'Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh. Af...
A. A. MILNE

An Expedition to the North Pole.
A. A. HODGE

The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there
A. A. MILNE

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
A. A. MILNE

We can't all, and some just don't. That's all there is to it.
A. A. MILNE

Tiggers don't like honey.
A. A. MILNE

He respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't...
A. A. MILNE

Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! [Christopher Robin is saying his prayers]
A. A. MILNE

Christopher Robin had a question to ask first, and he was wondering how to ask it."Well," he said at...
A. A. MILNE

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief-call it what you will-than...
A. A. MILNE

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to you...
A. A. MILNE

A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership which Christ has not made a conditi...
A. A. HODGE

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
A. A. HODGE

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
A. A. MILNE

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
A. A. MILNE

How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A. A. MILNE

No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. MILNE

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape ...
A. A. MILNE

It is very easy to say I MISS YOU, but very difficult to express how much I MISS YOU………..
SARVESH MURTHI .D .D

For a dude, I think I do cook. I'm a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time.
MIKE D

Lofts are great. But with a home, there is a lot to be said for delineated space. To have the luxury...
MIKE D

We never set out to be superstars.
MIKE D

When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.
MIKE D

We're doing what we want to do, and that's why the kids respect us.
MIKE D

We are exercising our constitutional right to be fresh.
MIKE D

L.A. is a town built upon segregated, individual fantasies.
MIKE D

Each time you present a tour, you're faced with these questions of, 'How do you want to pres...
MIKE D

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint...
MIKE D

Wine needs to have a context in a social gathering to fulfill its historical place in this world.
MIKE D

I'm always careful to even guess, at any juncture, about things before we do them.
MIKE D

I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it's well-found...
MIKE D

In the time we made 'To the 5 Boroughs,' there was a political seriousness because of what w...
MIKE D

That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen ...
MIKE D

We have rocked the ozone radically, man. They could probably fix the ozone if everybody stopped what...
MIKE D

I was showing up at the studio all the time with no bag, being like, 'I don't want to have a...
MIKE D

Having to wake up at seven and go take the subway every morning, having to get over there with all t...
MIKE D

I'm in need of a man apron. A very manly apron.
MIKE D

Thinking about the cold weather in England... Don't be afraid to rock the David Niven look.
MIKE D

Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen a...
MIKE D

Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subject...
MIKE D

I don't think about Yauch in the form of his death. I think about him in the form of his life. H...
MIKE D

I was a nerdy punk-rock kid.
MIKE D

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.
MIKE D

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need ...
CHUCK D

Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the othe...
CHUCK D

Denver and Boulder are good record-buying cities. I don't know why.
MIKE D

Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as ess...
CHUCK D

Never let a win get to your head, or a loss to your heart.
CHUCK D

New York isn't segregated the way many American cities are, where there are specific ethnic neig...
MIKE D

Most interviewers basically just want us to rephrase the bio. You already know us - why do you need ...
MIKE D

We're downtown New Yorkers and had very close proximity to the events of September 11th. Like ev...
MIKE D

The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp ...
CHUCK D

When you get to a point where you're not beholden to a record company, then it's up to you t...
MIKE D

People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel...
CHUCK D

I basically taught myself how to DJ, but I've been inspired by DJs throughout my whole career. I...
PAULY D

Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of tim...
CHUCK D

I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatle...
CHUCK D

I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being ...
CHUCK D

May Light always surround you;
Hope kindle and rebound you.
May your Hurts turn to Healing...
D. SIMONE

The lonesome and desperate kids out there, that pain will translate to magic perhaps.
TENACIOUS D

When I was growing up in New York, we were the anomaly. Our family stayed, but back then families di...
MIKE D

Mr. Philippe Zdar is a little bit like the uncle of the whole Daft Punk-Phoenix-Air thing in Paris a...
MIKE D

What I want from you is simple. I want today only.

If it’s laughter, I want it. If it�...
D. LOVE

I really admire David Guetta; he's an unbelievable DJ and I love his style, his music and everyt...
PAULY D

Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps
CHUCK D

All the music I listened to in high school that I loved and that moved me wasn't the same music ...
MIKE D

Dub has been a big influence in terms of production. It's inspired so many people and so much mu...
MIKE D

I will do 'Dancing with the Stars' when my career dips.
PAULY D

You're the only thing keeping me from insanity, yet when you look at me, its my heart you make go in...
D JAST

The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel w...
CHUCK D

Love doesn't walk away, people do.
MICHAELA D.

You have created a disturbance in my life that has left my heart passionately and emotionally vexed.
ANDY D

I don't know - the idea of a specific wine paired with a specific piece of music seems a little ...
MIKE D

Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment ...
CHUCK D

The Apollo program, the race to the moon became emblematic of American science and technology,
D. MILLER

There's something about being any kind of entertainer that is acting. You have to put on a show....
HEAVY D

Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life
D. ASWINI

Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Witho...
CHUCK D

I'm always under surveillance from both the NSA, the Russian KGB, and the Bulgarian Army, so I'm the...
STEFAN D

If you were to ask Jarod Kintz‬‬‬ what his personal favourite joke was, he'd say the one with ...
STEFAN D

Do you believe that your country is the best in the world, your religion the only true explanation o...
D. HOLMES

Religion is the Santa Clause myth for Adults
D. HOLMES

As the quality of students increases, they want more than a square-box residence hall with a bathroo...
D. MILLER

You have a problem with me? Let me know, otherwise I'll assume we're cool and that's just awkward.
SIENNA D.

One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own cou...
CHUCK D

I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for...
CHUCK D

Now what is the will of God? That's the big question. You can't say the will of God is to disrespect...
CHUCK D

I try to tell myself I hate you, But every time I try, My mind just winds up thinking the same thing...
D JAST

Then tell me Mark, how can I do it? How do I watch her life fade everyday but not hurt? How do I con...
D. LOVE

At the time, I was living pretty close to Ground Zero. I had to grab some necessary equipment, put i...
MIKE D

Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is sl...
CHUCK D

Yes I am weird, weird is good. Normal is overrated.
MAD-D

You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.

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You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.

D. A. Pennebaker

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