Unless you're trying to make a movie on the sly, there's no way to get around this. If you want to use public spaces, film on the streets, have the cooperation of the police, you have to have a permit.
“To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.”
“From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.”