Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Charles Guggenheim

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American film director Charles Guggenheim.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Charles Eli Guggenheim was an American documentary film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was the most honored documentary filmmaker in the academy history, winning four Oscars from twelve nominations.

American - Film director | March 31, 1924 - October 9, 2002

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Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques.

Charles Guggenheim

There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.

Charles Guggenheim

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.

Charles Guggenheim

I have made more documentaries in my time than I think I care to remember, though I am immensely proud of all my work.

Charles Guggenheim