Paul Rotha Quotes:
Ocupation: Film-maker
Life: June 3, 1907 - March 7, 1984
Birthday: June 3
Death: March 7
Above all, documentary must reflect the problems and realities of the present. It cannot regret the past; it is dangerous to prophesy the future. It can, and does, draw on the past in its use of existing heritages but it only does so to give point to a modern argument. In no sense is documentary a historical reconstruction and attempts to make it so are destined to failure. Rather it is contemporary fact and event expressed in relation to human associations.
topic: Regret, Past, Reality, Past Regrets
