15+ Brett Morgen Quotes On Music, Art And Future

Brett Morgen is an American film director, producer, and writer. He is best known for his documentaries, including The Kid Stays in the Picture, Chicago 10, and Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. He has also directed narrative films such as On the Ropes and Crossing Over. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Brett Morgen on life, love, music.

I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me. — Brett Morgen

As a generation, Generation X or whatever we were called, we were not being nurtured. We didn't have Obama. We didn't have Bill Clinton. We didn't have any politicians that you could look up to, nor did we have parents. — Brett Morgen

My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly interested in designing and creating documentaries like fiction, so it was a natural evolution to try and embark on doing a dramatic narrative. — Brett Morgen

One thing about Kurt [Cobain] is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist, and an artist with a capital A. What that means is that he had to create. It wasn't something that he chose to do - it chose him. — Brett Morgen

You can't divorce yourself from your own life experiences. — Brett Morgen

Everybody feels protective and possessive about Kurt [Cobain] , and I think that can be attributed to his unique gift, an ability to touch our lives, and make us feel like he's our friend. — Brett Morgen

The only people who really love the '80s are millennials. We had Reagan and Bush for our entire youth, the culture was terrible, the fashions were terrible, the movies were terrible. — Brett Morgen

You have Kurt [Cobain], and he's singing about your experiences. They're our collective experiences. — Brett Morgen

When I grew up, we had no babysitters and nobody every observed us. People don't parent like that today. They're very hands-on; kids are constantly being supervised. — Brett Morgen

I never met Kurt Cobain, but I felt like I got to know him in a manner probably more intimate than anyone I've known outside of my family. — Brett Morgen

Kurt [Cobain ]was a feminist. A lot of the bashing against Courtney [Love] I think has to deal with gender bias and the media, and I think that he liked that she was taking the attention off of him. — Brett Morgen

Oftentimes when people make movies about the '80s, they go back and look at '80s films, [but] those look nothing like the '80s. It's some watered-down version of reality. — Brett Morgen

I have three children, and they have never spent a minute unsupervised in their lives. My generation overcompensated like mad. I'm not even joking, every kid on my street [growing up] was molested. My kids would not have had an opportunity to molested, because they've never been alone, which is going to create a whole set of problems. — Brett Morgen

Kurt [Cobain], from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold a guitar, he was playing — Brett Morgen

I've never had access to another person's art and work or, particularly, someone who is as prolific and was able to externalize his interior world as deeply as Kurt [Cobain] could. — Brett Morgen

Life Lessons by Brett Morgen

1. Brett Morgen's work teaches us that it is important to tell stories from different perspectives and to capture the complexity of the human experience.
2. He also demonstrates the power of collaboration and the importance of bringing together a team of talented people to create something special.
3. Lastly, his films show us that with the right approach, even the most complex stories can be told in a compelling and engaging way.