40 Quotes by Haskell Wexler

I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally – of shooting documentaries and so forth – is an important issue.

Now, I have to – in my defense, I have the say that general knowledge of the deadly nature of cigarettes was not primarily in my mind and nor was it on these poor cowboys, who – many of whom who’ve died of emphysema since we were shooting.

From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.

If you’re making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think that you are part of a system.

I felt that that experience, because of the responsible nature that I found I acted all during that traumatic time, that I felt that I was a man.

I used it in a shot where Richard Burton goes down the hall to get a gun in a closet. And I wanted to get some excitement, and the hallway was too narrow for the dollies that they had at that time. So it was quite useful.

Not one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash.

I rationalize out, well, how much help could you really be, you know? And maybe if people saw this, they’d realize the brutality of war and figure out there’s got to be some better way than killing human beings who are just trying to farm a field.

Most people, I believe, when they’re asked profound questions about their own persona are not really able to enunciate it, because it’s a combination of so many things.