31 Quotes by Marshall Curry

My wife runs a non-profit that gives legal information online to victims of domestic violence.

I think I'm drawn to people who dream big, and both films have that. In 'Street Fight, Cory Booker wants to become Mayor of Newark, and in 'Racing Dreams,' three kids want to become NASCAR drivers.

When you work on something in an edit room with just a couple of other people, you never know how it is going to be received.

When I was in college, I majored in comparative religion because I really wanted to figure out if there was God and how I should live my life.

To me, the most interesting films are films that take very strong points of view and bang them up against each other and let sparks happen.

To me, the best projects are the ones where you have a pretty good idea of what the spine of it's gonna be, but then all sorts of things happen that you could've never predicted, and those are the magic moments of the films.

With 'Street Fight,' it took an urban mayoral election and found lots of complexity in there. The same with 'Racing Dreams.' I wanted to show complexity within this world that most documentary people don't know anything about.

When you are interviewing someone, never let your camera person turn off the camera. The second you turn off the camera, they'll say the magic thing that you'd been looking for the whole interview. People want to relax after the performance is done. Don't be afraid of awkward silence. That is your friend.

I've often thought even ragtag gatherings of documentary filmmakers are more fun than gatherings of fiction filmmakers.