A biography for John Wilsonhasn’t been written yet.
“I have no interest in living forever. It sounds like a nightmare.”
“A lot of the time, people are themselves on camera. Even if you start recording and they change a tiny bit, it's still some version of themselves.”
“I was afraid New York was going to become boring.”
“I try to turn these bad things that happen to me into something good. The worst feeling in the world is when something is a net loss.”
“It's rare to have the resources we had with HBO to basically create whatever prop we wanted, chase whatever lead we wanted. The overall lesson I got from it is to try as many things as possible and never say no when someone invites you to do something or go somewhere.”
“I think that obsessively documenting everything sometimes gives me a reason to go out and experience things.”
“Pseudonyms make it a little easier to shift perspective and approach the subject matter with the appropriate persona. That also may be looking into it way too much.”
“I get so bored watching something when I begin to realize the pattern.”
“I don't have a GoPro attached to me at all times, but I try to raise the camera when it feels right.”
“Basically if someone is willing to talk to me and have something interesting to say, I just stay with them for as long as I possibly can, and then just see where it takes me.”
“People get tired once they can see a formula or recognize a formula or see repeat imagery.”
“I thought it would be really funny to find my way onto 'The Bachelorette' somehow and be the guy that is only there to make friends.”
“I can be a bit of a Mr. Magoo when I'm filming.”
“It's not that I won't make personal things in the future. I just think the work is going to mutate in a way as it moves forward.”
“I always have my iPhone with me, so I'm never without some way to capture what I need to.”
“It's really interesting how acting looks in real life when you remove the production.”
“One of the movies I made was this film where I go on Court TV and I wear a bunch of hidden cameras and stuff. I basically sue someone for a job they didn't pay me for.”
“I want to keep making more stuff that I want to see in the world that doesn't exist yet.”
“This weird thing happens once you start looking for something. It often just begins to reveal itself to you, and you begin to notice it.”
“I feel like so much of what passes as documentary or reality TV is just so over-edited, and you don't get a real sense of who this person is.”