Top 14 Quotes by Nicholas Jarecki

My dad used to sell a type of commodity contract. It was so complicated, he was certain his sales people didn't understand what they were selling.

I loved films of the '70s with those antihero protagonists who you don't know if you can get behind because their behavior is really questionable.

I spent 12 years doing different things in film trying to figure out the story I wanted to tell.

Aristotle wrote the 'Poetics' 2,400 years ago. It's really an instruction manual for aspiring filmmakers. It's as valid today as it was then.

Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.

I think that people need to become more educated about money. We need to stop creating systems that benefit only the most-cutthroat sharks.

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

Doing anything on a movie at Sundance is great.

I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.

Some people are in positions of power, and when incentives go haywire, we are all human and it's easy to make mistakes. I am not saying everybody is Bernie Madoff.