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

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

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

We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.

- 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…

- 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

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

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

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