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Brett Morgen Biography

Film director

Brett Morgen is a renowned film director, born in 1968. His works are known for their unique narrative style and profound insights into historical events.

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“Kurt [Cobain], from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold a guitar, he was playing”

Moments Hands Painting Guitar Cobain Paintbrush

Author:Brett Morgen

“One thing about Kurt [Cobain] is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist, and an artist with a capital A. What that means is that he had to create. It wasn't something that he chose to do - it chose him.”

Mean Artist Stars One Thing Rocks Musician Rock Star Cobain

Author:Brett Morgen

“Kurt [Cobain ]was a feminist. A lot of the bashing against Courtney [Love] I think has to deal with gender bias and the media, and I think that he liked that she was taking the attention off of him.”

Thinking Deals Attention Media Feminist Gender Bias Cobain Gender Bias Courtney

Author:Brett Morgen

“I never met Kurt Cobain, but I felt like I got to know him in a manner probably more intimate than anyone I've known outside of my family.”

Knows Felt Known Mets My Family Intimate Cobain

Author:Brett Morgen

“I've never had access to another person's art and work or, particularly, someone who is as prolific and was able to externalize his interior world as deeply as Kurt [Cobain] could.”

World Persons Art Able Access Interiors Cobain

Author:Brett Morgen

“You can't divorce yourself from your own life experiences.”

Divorce Life Experience

Author:Brett Morgen

“Everybody feels protective and possessive about Kurt [Cobain] , and I think that can be attributed to his unique gift, an ability to touch our lives, and make us feel like he's our friend.”

Thinking Feels Ability Our Lives Unique Protective Possessive Cobain Unique Gifts

Author:Brett Morgen

“You have Kurt [Cobain], and he's singing about your experiences. They're our collective experiences.”

Singing Collectives Cobain

Author:Brett Morgen

“My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly interested in designing and creating documentaries like fiction, so it was a natural evolution to try and embark on doing a dramatic narrative.”

Trying Spirit Natural Fiction Design Evolution Creating Narrative Cinema Dramatic Dominant Documentaries Non Fiction

Author:Brett Morgen

“I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me.”

Feels Trying Film Fiction Non Fiction Subtext

Author:Brett Morgen

“The only people who really love the '80s are millennials. We had Reagan and Bush for our entire youth, the culture was terrible, the fashions were terrible, the movies were terrible.”

People Culture Fashion Youth Terrible 80s Millennials

Author:Brett Morgen

“Oftentimes when people make movies about the '80s, they go back and look at '80s films, [but] those look nothing like the '80s. It's some watered-down version of reality.”

People Looks Reality Film Versions 80s

Author:Brett Morgen

“When I grew up, we had no babysitters and nobody every observed us. People don't parent like that today. They're very hands-on; kids are constantly being supervised.”

People Hands Kids Today Parent Grew Grew Up Babysitter

Author:Brett Morgen

“I have three children, and they have never spent a minute unsupervised in their lives. My generation overcompensated like mad. I'm not even joking, every kid on my street [growing up] was molested. My kids would not have had an opportunity to molested, because they've never been alone, which is going to create a whole set of problems.”

Children Whole Problem Kids Three Opportunity Growing Up Growing Generations Streets Minutes Mad My Generation

Author:Brett Morgen

“As a generation, Generation X or whatever we were called, we were not being nurtured. We didn't have Obama. We didn't have Bill Clinton. We didn't have any politicians that you could look up to, nor did we have parents.”

Looks Parent Generations Politician Bills Clinton Look Up Generation X

Author:Brett Morgen

“Sometimes, you chase the moment and you can never catch it. Films take so long to make that you can never anticipate what the cultural landscape will be when the film enters the world.”

World Long Sometimes Moments Film

Author:Brett Morgen

“Every second counts. We are only on this earth for a short amount of time, and we get to decide how we want to use that time. And if one thinks that the purpose of life is to leave the world in just a little bit better place than we found it, it's hard to think of anyone who has contributed more than Jane Goodall.”

Thinking World Earth Purpose Purpose Of Life

Author:Brett Morgen

About the Author

Born: 1968
Known for: Film director
Quotes: 17

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