I think my movies aren't sentimental. I think my movies are funny and sad and realistic. Not realistic … - Frederick Wiseman

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Frederick Wiseman

I think my movies aren't sentimental. I think my movies are funny and sad and realistic. Not realistic in the sense that they're documentaries, but realistic in the sense that they're not idealistic, they're not optimistic, not pessimistic, and not propagandistic. They're an analysis of a situation. I call it as I see it, so to speak.

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My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences.

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I think I've learned a lot about how to make movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how similar problems are resolved in other forms. The issues in all forms are the same in an abstract sense, aren't they? Characterization, abstraction, metaphor, passage of time. . . Whether it's a movie, a novel, a play, or a poem, those issues exist. And each person resolves them differently.

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I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.

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Even if I know I'm going to go to a church, I don't know what the minister's going to say.

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I do not think that my films or films by any other filmmaker represent "THE TRUTH. " I do not feel the need to categorize my films or anyone else's.

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