As a filmmaker, it’s not my intent to trigger or shape national discourse. My task is to make as powerful and understandable a film as I can. What happens next is what happens next. Peter Landesman Read Quote
Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigating around that contradiction is part of what it is to be alive. Peter Landesman Read Quote
Life only has narrative when we frame it and edit it and call it certain things. Peter Landesman Read Quote
The village of Polgardi is a dusty roadside settlement northeast of Lake Balaton, a resort area in western Hungary popular with German tourists. Peter Landesman Read Quote
Large corporations have the ability to distract people with controversy that just distracts people from what’s great about the movie or what works about the movie. Peter Landesman Read Quote
The story of Bennet Omalu is a riveting story; it’s just a riveting tale. I knew from the beginning if I stayed close to that kind of storytelling and focussed on the character, then the other stuff comes along with it, and the message becomes baked into the journey. Peter Landesman Read Quote
People go to the movies to have an emotional experience, not to learn information they could look up on Wikipedia. Peter Landesman Read Quote
I always spend a good deal of time with the people I write about. I try and smell the normalcy of their lives. I try to look at the normal rhythm of their life. Peter Landesman Read Quote
I was a war correspondent and journalist for a long time, and I was very near the towers on 9/11 and very shortly after in Afghanistan. Peter Landesman Read Quote
I love writing in compressed time periods because the act of survival in the midst of panic and fear, that’s where true heroism comes. If you have a uniform, and you’re expected to do things, it’s a sort of incremental heroism. Peter Landesman Read Quote
