Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.
Frederick WisemanA lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it's very rare that any sequence is the sequence that is shot.
Frederick WisemanI'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.
Frederick WisemanOne's relationship to time is complicated, and sometimes a day will drag on forever and sometimes it'll be over in a flash. When you look back, "I'm old," after 40 or 60 years, I can't believe I'm as old as I am.
Frederick Wiseman