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" On some level, you could say you wouldn't have 'In Style Magazine' at all had Anna Wintour not decided to put celebrities on the cover of 'Vogue' from her earliest years as Editor in Chief. "
R. J. Cutler
Magazine
Style
You
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" The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney. "
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American
" Belushi was one of my very first heroes. At a time when film, television, and music were undergoing tectonic shifts within American culture, he was at the center of it all. At that moment, he had the number one show on television, the number one film at the box office, and the number one record on the charts. "
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" It's my approach as a filmmaker always to go in, not with a thesis or preconceived notion, but with curiosity and questions and inquiry. So in some way, I'm always surprised. I'm always finding paths of engagement. "
R. J. Cutler
Finding
Go
Questions
" I record the following shows on a daily basis and watch them when I have the time/inclination: 'The Daily Show,' Rachel Maddow, 'Hardball,' 'The Colbert Report,' 'The O'Reilly Factor,' David Letterman. "
R. J. Cutler
Letterman
Following
Daily
" Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker. "
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You
Will
Storytelling
" Throughout the day, I frequently use my iPhone to check 'Deadline Hollywood' and my Twitter feed, as well as the 'Daily Beast,' the 'New York Times,' 'Metsblog,' and 'Thejetsblog.' "
R. J. Cutler
New York
Hollywood
Day
" I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb. "
R. J. Cutler
Men
Leadership
Women
" Living in L.A. keeps me in my car a lot, and I'm constantly flipping back and forth between the following Sirius/XM Radio stations: NFL Radio, MLB Radio, POTUS, MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News. "
R. J. Cutler
Fox
Living
News
" I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.' "
R. J. Cutler
Know
Wife
New York
" I discovered the theater when I was in the first grade. "
R. J. Cutler
First Grade
First
Theater
" Directing plays lacked the immediacy and connection to real world events that journalism offered; journalism lacked the drama, theatricality and subjective storytelling of theater. It wasn't until I had the idea of making a documentary film about the 1992 presidential campaign that these two passions came together in 'The War Room.' "
R. J. Cutler
Journalism
Drama
Together
" I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country. "
R. J. Cutler
Think
Say
Perfect
" 'Taxicab Confessions' always cracks me up. And if you are in the mood for a good game show, I like 'Survivor' because it's well made. "
R. J. Cutler
Me
Game
Survivor
" I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see. "
R. J. Cutler
Drawing
People
Politics
" I grew up on Long Island, and from as early as I can remember, as far back as first grade, I had two real passions - one of them was putting on plays, and the other was journalism. I was directing plays and editing school papers from first grade on, all the way through college. "
R. J. Cutler
Journalism
School
Remember
" I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind. "
R. J. Cutler
Think
Say
Brother
" We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to. "
R. J. Cutler
American
High
Hope
" As with the subjects in all of my films, the incentive is left to the subject to determine on their own. I never ask someone why they say yes to me. After all, if you invited someone to join you for dinner, and they accepted your invitation, your next question wouldn't be, 'Why are you saying yes?' "
R. J. Cutler
You
Say
Dinner
" I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not. "
R. J. Cutler
Business
Lunch
Work
" The great thing about 'American High' is that, every year, you can do a completely different environment. "
R. J. Cutler
American
You
Year
" 'The September Issue' is really a film about Anna Wintour's relationship with long time 'Vogue' Creative Director Grace Coddington. The two of them have been working together for two decades, and the extraordinary symbiosis between them has left an indelible mark on the fashion industry. "
R. J. Cutler
Relationship
Time
Working Together
" Reality television has borrowed so much from the world of politics, whether it's alliances or voting or the kind of strategizing that's done. Anything like that came from politics well before it came from reality television. "
R. J. Cutler
Politics
World
Done
" The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today. "
R. J. Cutler
Succeed
Ugly
You
" In both the world of fashion and politics, what's required to succeed is passion, dedication, and vision. "
R. J. Cutler
Dedication
Politics
Vision
" If ever we deserved a candidate at this moment in our culture, that candidate is Donald Trump. "
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Moment
Donald Trump
Culture
" If I had to name my favorite media personality, it would be a tie between Jon Stewart and Trey Parker/Matt Stone. Honest, wise, funny, and right. Sam Sifton was right up there when he was writing food criticism for the 'New York Times.' "
R. J. Cutler
Funny
Food
New York
" I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about. "
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Moment
Life
Myself
" I was watching 'The September Issue' in the back of a theater in New York, and I thought, 'I know I really can do this with actors.' "
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Know
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Thought
" Cheney refers to his vice presidency... as one of the most consequential vice presidencies in American history. And it clearly was. "
R. J. Cutler
American
His
American History
" As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised. "
R. J. Cutler
Always
Way
I Am