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Haskell Wexler
Haskell Wexler
American Director
Born: Feb 6, 1922
Died: Dec 27, 2015
Been People Think Work World You
Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
Professional cinema image-taking should integrate, serve, interest, and enhance the story. I judge cinematography not just for a story well told but for what the story is. Haskell Wexler
Judge Cinema Cinematography Well Integrate Just Story Interest Should Professional Enhance Serve
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
Today Truth People Ethics Lies See Accept Am Cameraman Conditioned Commercial Anymore Interested Images
I don't think there is a movie that I've been on that I wasn't sure I could direct it better. But certainly also, as a director of photography, I have to serve the movie in whatever way I can as a filmmaker. Haskell Wexler
Director Photography Better Whatever Think Way Direct Could Also Sure Been Movie Certainly Serve Filmmaker
I don't attack any kind of script or shooting with some philosophy that is discernible even to myself. It might just be art and love: When I got my Academy Award for 'Virginia Woolf' in the middle of the Vietnam War, I said, 'I hope we can use our art for peace and love.' Haskell Wexler
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I am a Chicagoan. I feel like I've simply been on vacation for 10 years in Los Angeles. But Chicago is a real place, and L.A. is a motel. Haskell Wexler
Angeles Simply Feel Like Motel Am Real Los Los Angeles Been Years Chicago Real Place Place Vacation
One person has a responsibility not just for himself but for inter-relationships with the existences of others and the world. Haskell Wexler
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When they speak about 'We the people...,' we the people have to have a voice. It can't just be the establishment voice. Haskell Wexler
People Speak Just Be About Voice Just Establishment
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
Time Man Feeling Walks Young Medium Please Says Sign Scene Anything Which Young Man Sanity Cool

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