Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking. Peter Landesman bringcolorfilm Change image and share on social
Documentaries for me always felt kind of limiting. I wanted to go bigger. And I also love actors, and I love performance. So feature filmmaking was always the intent. Peter Landesman actorbigdocumentary Change image and share on social
Sometimes, in a fictional story, you can be more honest and truthful, actually. As a journalist, you're a prisoner of the data, in effect. You have to tell the story with evidence you can verify. Peter Landesman datumeffectevidence Change image and share on social
What I learned is that there are indeed some stories that are too true to tell, too revealing for the general population to metabolize. And too challenging to your reporter colleagues, whose turf or toes you might have tread upon. Peter Landesman challengecolleaguegeneral share on social
I'm Jewish, not Catholic, but I'm a spiritual person. Peter Landesman catholicjewishperson Change image and share on social
I start each of my scripts by going on a journey of painstaking research and discovery, much as I do a piece of long-lead journalism. Peter Landesman discoveryjournalismjourney Change image and share on social
Our brains have this habit of quilting dreams from the fabrics of our lives. As a filmmaker, I get to do it for a living. Peter Landesman braindreamfabric Change image and share on social
I love football. I played it into two years of college. Peter Landesman collegefootballlove Change image and share on social
I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I'm a director, and it feels all part of the same continuum. One led to the other, and it just feels like the natural confluence of all the ways of storytelling that I've been doing for almost 30 years. Peter Landesman confluencecontinuumdirector share on social
Serious collectors and art experts, among the world's most educated, often cannot fathom the possibility of being rooked, and then once taken, cannot face the humiliation of admitting it. Peter Landesman admitartcollector Change image and share on social