How Documentaries Work Quotes

“The first shot has played itself out on the screen. . . . To linger on it after our actor has left the scene is to leave our viewer with “cold coffee.” . . . If the viewer is not confused or disappointed, he will simply be bored. It has been many years since a mere picture projected on the screen was considered amazing or amusing. Every part of a film must deliver its message, but the only message delivered by redundant frames of film is that the cutter was inept or too lazy to cut them off.”
― Jacob Bricca, How Documentaries Work