Marshall Curry Quotes

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

As soon as anybody puts anything on film, it automatically has a point of view, and it's somebody else's point of view, and it's impossible for it to be yours.

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

You can't create a movie as you think about it. And what's in the scene is not what's being seen. A shot always means something other than what it is. All are vehicles. A landscape is just a vehicle. The viewer might think different things, and I'm not going to intervene.

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

I always think that's neat, when you can hear a story told from different points of view, different perspectives.

If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.

When you write for somebody else, you've got to write from their standpoint. You can't really write from your own point of view.

Film is subjective, and we must be careful with that. The kinds of films I love are those that observe, and I give possibility for people to talk. No need for me to tell people what to think - even when I make a film like 'S-21.' It's only one point of view. It's still a film; it's not a tribunal.

I'm a documentary filmmaker, I know what it means to craft a story, especially when you've shot a lot of material.

I think that as reporters we certainly bring to bear our own set of experiences, our backgrounds, to our reporting.

Statistics are easy to remove ourselves from. A story, you are implicated in, and you have to choose what side you are going to be on.

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

No one individual can tell the truth.