Kristi Jacobson quotes

For me, as a documentary filmmaker, I'm interested in telling stories of real people whose experiences tell us something about ourselves or our history, or who we are and our potential.
-- Kristi Jacobson

#Real #People #Stories

I'm a documentary filmmaker, so often I'm in the position of talking to people who are sharing stories that are critically important to share, but often difficult to share at the same time.
-- Kristi Jacobson

#Talking #People #Important

Truth is better than fiction in terms of telling the story.
-- Kristi Jacobson

#Fiction #Stories #Truth Is

I think that the invisibility of hunger in America - to the eye - is what's keeping it invisible politically and to America at large.
-- Kristi Jacobson

#Eye #Thinking #America

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.

Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.

Of course, the advantage is that, being in this business, you get to learn a lot, experience a lot of new things, and you can become real successful. The disadvantage is, of course the negative media. People may try to manipulate you and control you, and those are the things you have to avoid. But if you maintain strong family values and you believe in God, you can be successful. So, it's been tough, but I've gotten through it because I stuck with my family and my deep belief in God.

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

I love love stories, no matter how dark.