Liz Garbus Quotes

#1. Every film I make I feel like I am getting a mini-masters degree, it's a wonderful life path and you get to immerse yourself in an intriguing world for a couple of years.

Liz Garbus

#2. I guess what I get excited about when I'm thinking about projects is that toothy, complex area of goodness and badness and the gray areas of human behavior and existence.

Liz Garbus

#3. I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail.

Liz Garbus

#4. I think all of us, looking back on our careers and our lives, there'll probably be a "road not taken" that we'll regret and mourn. Certainly, artists will always feel that way, especially when the path taken was more commercial than the one not taken.

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#5. If you look at the gifted sportsman, like Tiger Woods, or Ryan Giggs, you can see how they have been built up to be so much more than one person could ever be.

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#6. When your entire life is focused around one goal and one goal only, and you have no other pursuits, it enables you to achieve enormous mastery.

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#7. Bobby Fischer was hugely important for the American chess community because it put chess on the map - he made it possible for other chess players to make a living.

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#8. In the Soviet Union, for instance, the pressure on the chess stars was immense. When Boris Spassky came home after losing that match, he found he no longer had an apartment in Moscow.

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#9. I don't think you make documentary films to get your country house. If you're trying to gamble on that, you've very foolish.

Liz Garbus