Jeff Feuerzeig
Jeff Feuerzeig
Jeff Feuerzeigis an American film director and screenwriter best known for The Devil and Daniel Johnston, his profile of cult musician and outsider artist Daniel Johnston, for which he was awarded the Directing prize for Documentary at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and which was released theatrically in March 2006 by Sony Pictures Classics...
enigma remains
He started as an enigma to me; he remains an enigma to me.
artistic single
It was an unprecedented archaeological find for a single artist. I don't think there's ever been a more self-documented artistic life.
blow inside material mind
I was more than obsessed. I was inside this guy's mind. There was so much material it would blow your mind.
anyone art body corporate ears enjoy music open people power touched wants
The body of work, it's touched people all over the world. And with no corporate agenda. The power of the music and the art is there for anyone who wants to enjoy it with an open heart, ears and eyes.
music passed secret
The music he made in the '80s was being passed around the world like a secret handshake.
astounding broadcast decided hour literally second
That broadcast is the most astounding thing you'll ever hear. I decided to make the movie literally the second that hour was over.
feelings
You always want to unmask the person and find out who they are - that feeling of wanting what you can't have.
What is fiction or cinema if not escape?
book writing thinking
When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in the story not thinking about who wrote it.
college southern literature
In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.
artist literature film
When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.
art thinking people
In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.
art madness poet
For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.
powerful myth very-powerful
Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.