I felt like any individual's recovery was more important than the film I was making. And I actually felt that my presence was a form of witness that communicated to the people I was following that their lives mattered.
You can just imagine the restrictions of shooting in a prison, but I just decided I'm going to embrace those restrictions sometimes when you don't ha… - Brian Lindstrom
You can just imagine the restrictions of shooting in a prison, but I just decided I'm going to embrace those restrictions sometimes when you don't ha…
- Brian Lindstrom
We all use dishwashers every day and yet none of us would say that we're experts on dishwashers, but somehow we all think we're experts on movies. - Brian Lindstrom
We all use dishwashers every day and yet none of us would say that we're experts on dishwashers, but somehow we all think we're experts on movies.
The visual quality of the cameras now is such that you can shoot with available light, and if people are willing to mount a microphone on the camera … - Brian Lindstrom
The visual quality of the cameras now is such that you can shoot with available light, and if people are willing to mount a microphone on the camera …
We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character. - Brian Lindstrom
We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.
I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express that deeply individualistic… - Brian Lindstrom
I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express that deeply individualistic…
One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it has all of those built-in ch… - Brian Lindstrom
One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it has all of those built-in ch…
Documentary filmmaking has all the challenges and hardships of narrative filmmaking without any of the infrastructure or support. That's both a bless… - Brian Lindstrom
Documentary filmmaking has all the challenges and hardships of narrative filmmaking without any of the infrastructure or support. That's both a bless…
It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché. - Brian Lindstrom
It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.
If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story across. You'd like to… - Brian Lindstrom
If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story across. You'd like to…
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