If you look at the gifted sportsman, like Tiger Woods, or Ryan Giggs, you can see how they have been built up to be so much more than one person coul…

- Liz Garbus

You know, and the fact that Nina Simone had to start playing in clubs and sing because her parents had moved north to support her music education. Yo…

- Liz Garbus

I think all of us, looking back on our careers and our lives, there'll probably be a "road not taken" that we'll regret and mourn. Certainly, artists…

- Liz Garbus

Every film I make I feel like I am getting a mini-masters degree, it's a wonderful life path and you get to immerse yourself in an intriguing world f…

- Liz Garbus

I guess what I get excited about when I'm thinking about projects is that toothy, complex area of goodness and badness and the gray areas of human be…

- Liz Garbus

I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail.

- Liz Garbus

There is so much investment in it of people's labor time that it will never make money. But there are other documentaries that you might make that ar…

- Liz Garbus

Each project draws you in on its own merits as opposed to an intellectual choice of, "Well, I'm going to shift from vérité filmmaking to more archiva…

- Liz Garbus

In the Soviet Union, for instance, the pressure on the chess stars was immense. When Boris Spassky came home after losing that match, he found he no …

- Liz Garbus