[W]hen you're shooting a doc, you're trying to class it up because you can. You know, you're trying to make this feel like cinematic experience. And …

- John Hyams

I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by it.

- John Hyams

There is nothing wrong with saving the world, but it's a little boring.

- John Hyams

I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fictio…

- John Hyams

I really only became an editor, or started doing my own editing because I was filming the docs and you simply can't keep an editor on for as long as …

- John Hyams

I've always been a big proponent of point of view in cinema. Not necessarily that the point of view has to be subjective, but that in all great films…

- John Hyams

Most of my training I do in between movies, and even if I wasn't an actor I'd be doing it. I started studying martial arts when I was 14, and it's so…

- John Hyams