Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American film director Jeff Feuerzeig.
Last updated on November 19, 2024.
Jeff Feuerzeig is an American film director and screenwriter best known for The Devil and Daniel Johnston, his profile of cult musician and outsider artist Daniel Johnston, for which he was awarded the Directing prize for Documentary at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and which was released theatrically in March 2006 by Sony Pictures Classics.
For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.
Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.
In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.
You always want to unmask the person and find out who they are - that feeling of wanting what you can't have.
What is fiction or cinema if not escape?
When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in the story not thinking about who wrote it.
In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.
There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.
When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.