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Quote by Alejandro Jodorowsky

“I don't live in France; I live in myself.”

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Alejandro Jodorowsky, born on February 17, 1929, is a renowned Chilean filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor. His filmography is known for its unique artistic style and profound philosophical insights. more

“Often, I'm spending months with a person in a very intimate context, getting to know the ins and outs of what they ate for breakfast, not to mention dredging up the most traumatic experiences of their lives, digging through their documents and photographs from difficult times, all of that. And that process, I think, can be extraordinarily strange for subjects who've never been interviewed before, especially if you don't acquaint them from the get-go with what you're trying to do, what it entails, and why you care.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Persons Care Process Difficult Subjects Strange Months Photograph Spending Intimate Breakfast Documents Difficult Times Digging Traumatic Experiences Dredging

Author:Sarah Stillman

“I wanted to think about ways to get an American readership concerned with what is happening in Mexico, but also to reframe it as a problem Americans share.”

Thinking Way Problem Wanted Share Happenings Concerned Mexico Readership

Author:Sarah Stillman

“One thing I've discovered is that if you remain in contact with people, if you build longitudinal relationships, if you invest in sources who seem at first like they're uncomfortable or unwilling to talk, if you keep in touch with them, a year later that might yield something much more powerful.”

People Ifs Years Firsts Seems Might Powerful One Thing Source Contact Uncomfortable Yield Unwilling

Author:Sarah Stillman

“One thing I've discovered is that I never think of something that didn't work out as just "something that didn't work out." I think so often with investigative work, things that initially look like failures wind up leading to your biggest stories.”

Thinking Looks Stories One Thing Wind Work Out

Author:Sarah Stillman

“I found it really astonishing that undocumented migrants were kidnapped so routinely, that it was such a commonplace part of the journey for people trying to reach the US, and that we hear almost nothing about it here.”

People Trying Found Journey Astonishing Commonplace Migrants Kidnapped

Author:Sarah Stillman

“I tend to gravitate toward the "act two," or "act three," or "act four" stories - either things that are underreported, where we think we already know the common narrative, or things that are at the margins of an over-reported story, where we're all so focused in one direction that we're missing something crucial that's unfolding off to the side.”

Thinking Knows Two Stories Three Sides Common Four Missing Focused Narrative Crucial Margins Unfolding One Direction Missing Something

Author:Sarah Stillman

“When everyone's focused on the conventional parts of war - doing infantry imbeds or chasing IEDs - you look at the thing that seems not that interesting to people, like the circumstances of logistics workers cooking the troops' food or cleaning their latrines.”

People Looks War Seems Interesting Circumstances Cooking Workers Focused Troops Conventional Cleaning Chasing Art Of War Logistics Infantry

Author:Sarah Stillman

“There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening.”

Kind Different Space Attention Listening Details Different Kinds Obsessive Immersion Attention To Detail Deep Listening

Author:Sarah Stillman

“I feel like I partly came to writing through being in college during the start of the Iraq war, and knowing that those issues mattered lot to me, and wanting to go see for myself.”

Feels Writing War Knowing Issues College Iraq Iraq War

Author:Sarah Stillman

“I always knew I wanted to write, but I didn't know that I would want to do investigative reporting - in part because it seemed so ill-suited for my personality, or I thought it was ill-suited for my personality, insofar as I'm not very aggressive, and I'm not confrontational.”

Knows Want Writing Wanted Personality Ill Aggressive

Author:Sarah Stillman

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