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

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

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

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

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 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

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