David Shapiro Quotations

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

I don't necessarily believe in the ideology of cinema verité. I think by the very fact that you have a camera there you are affecting the story and you are influencing it.

There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.

We all have a family and I think we all have a perception of our family that we like to keep and we all have our positive memories in a certain way. Then when life catches up to them, when you see a different perspective of them, or when you are a couple degrees over, you can see things differently and it shakes you to the foundation.

Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.

I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

I love being a lawyer more than I like writing.

When 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.

I believe that sitting naked across from your adversary in a steam room makes negotiations more productive.