George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
art real creating
Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verité is film in its purest form. You're taking random images and creating meaning out of random images, telling a story, getting meaning, capturing something that's real, that's really happening, and render this celluloid sculpture of this real thing. That's what really separates the power of doc filmmaking from fiction.
responsibility thinking ethics
Obviously you have a responsibility - one would like to think there is such a thing as ethics in filmmaking.
heart darkness trying
Generally in my films like Hearts of Darkness or Picture This, I try not to make myself a presence in the film.
beautiful play historical
Im fascinated by failure, and Im fascinated by finality. Shakespeares historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.
dust going-away doe
The arc of the celebrity phenomenon ultimately is: everything turns to dust and everything does go away.
favors theory auteurs
Im very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.
people good-people
Most people, 95% of people, are good people. Its the 5% who get seduced by power.
responsibility unique rights
Theres something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.
real promise looking-for-love
The promise of celebrity is a transcendental human state of existence. It's not real. We do know the fact that celebrities as mortal beings exist and if you are looking for love by being famous or being around the famous - ultimately that goes away.
art thinking cinema
I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.
movie creating stories
I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.
humble humility keys
I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.
thinking
He that thinks amiss, concludes worse.
war giving
He that will not have peace, God gives him warre. [He that will not have peace, God gives him war.]