Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with. – Sean Durkin
What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where its like a coach-player relationship. – Sean Durkin
Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work – any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves. – Sean Durkin
In editing, its amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. Its amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension. – Sean Durkin
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. – Wade Davis