Documentary director, cinematographer, and producer. For nearly twenty years he has told complex stories with rare clarity, from correcting the record on Robin Williams' final year to putting Detroit's comeback on screen. He leads every film from whichever seat it needs most: the director's chair, the camera, or the whole production.
Tylor founded Quotable Pictures in 2009 on a documentary habit that never left him: interview people until the line worth quoting appears, then build everything around that line: the film, the photography, the campaign.
The three job titles are one discipline. Tylor has directed for the BBC, shot for HBO, and produced most of what he has directed. That range isn't scatter; it's leverage. When a story demands it, he can collapse an entire crew down to one person, spend the budget on the film instead of the overhead, and compromise less than a less versatile filmmaker would have to.
It has carried him from the wards of UCSF's Memory and Aging Center to a boxing ring in Stockton, from Detroit's block clubs to the Beacon Theatre's backstage walls. The subjects change. The method doesn't: show up, listen longer than is comfortable, and protect the truth of what people say.
"A portrait in unfathomable courage. A horror story shackled to a hero's journey."