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.
Haskell WexlerIf you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think that you are part of a system.
Haskell WexlerI 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.
Haskell WexlerFrom my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.
Haskell WexlerNow, I have to - in my defense, I have the say that general knowledge of the deadly nature of cigarettes was not primarily in my mind and nor was it on these poor cowboys, who - many of whom who've died of emphysema since we were shooting.
Haskell WexlerWell, of course the general idea was dreamed up by the advertising agency and so my job was to realize that. And we down to Lubbock, Texas, usually and onto a ranch and we would pick cowboys who looked the part and photograph them under dramatic situations - rounding up wild horses or running through streams and then reaching in and taking a drag on a cigarette.
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