Quotes by Haskell Wexler

Haskell Wexler

From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.

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I am part of a system which encourages people to buy things and do things which are not to their best interest.

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People

I don’t know where you’re reading all this stuff, but it’s pretty accurate, yes. It was in 1942. I was on a ship called the Accelo(ph) coming back from the Red Sea and we were sunk off the coast of Africa by a German submarine. And I was in a lifeboat for 14 days and landed and lived with the Pondos in South Africa while – who took care of us and took care of me. I had some wound in my left leg.

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Sea

Submarines

I felt that that experience, because of the responsible nature that I found I acted all during that traumatic time, that I felt that I was a man.

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Men

Responsible

I had a rope around my waist, and the rope was attached into the helicopter in case I fell off. And the shot was a shot that began with Kim Novak going out of a house and getting into a bus. Then it was supposed to go over the countryside and find a freight train on which Bill Holden was standing. And then after seeing a good look at the freight train, the camera was supposed to move up into the sky for the end credits.

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Sky

I rationalize out, well, how much help could you really be, you know? And maybe if people saw this, they’d realize the brutality of war and figure out there’s got to be some better way than killing human beings who are just trying to farm a field.

People

Trying

War

I think that it gave me a really strong feeling of my life force and a confidence in myself. I felt like I was a man. Before that point for some reason, I always felt I was a boy (laughter). In fact, they called me the baby on the ship ’cause I was the youngest guy on the ship. But I always felt that way.

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Laughter

Strong

I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally – of shooting documentaries and so forth – is an important issue.

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Issues

Thinking

I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally – of shooting documentaries and so forth – is an important issue. And it was an important issue to me, personally. And the whole question of when – when do you put the camera down or when do you keep shooting to get the shot. And a number of times in my life I’ve had that question hit me very hard.

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Numbers

Thinking

I used it in a shot where Richard Burton goes down the hall to get a gun in a closet. And I wanted to get some excitement, and the hallway was too narrow for the dollies that they had at that time. So it was quite useful.

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Quotes by Haskell Wexler

Haskell Wexler

From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.

I am part of a system which encourages people to buy things and do things which are not to their best interest.

I felt that that experience, because of the responsible nature that I found I acted all during that traumatic time, that I felt that I was a man.

I rationalize out, well, how much help could you really be, you know? And maybe if people saw this, they’d realize the brutality of war and figure out there’s got to be some better way than killing human beings who are just trying to farm a field.

I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally – of shooting documentaries and so forth – is an important issue.

I used it in a shot where Richard Burton goes down the hall to get a gun in a closet. And I wanted to get some excitement, and the hallway was too narrow for the dollies that they had at that time. So it was quite useful.

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