I don't necessarily believe in the ideology of cinema veritรฉ. I think by the very fact that you have a camera there you are affecting the story and you are influencing it.
David ShapiroI always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.
David ShapiroWhen in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.
David Shapiro