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Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.
Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.
Documentaries are my favorite thing, and the more depressing, the better.
Documentary films have always been my passion, I have done documentaries.
Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me.
I've done several commercials and I've done voiceovers for documentaries.
I love those documentaries where everyone is fabulous and always perfect.
We do documentaries on the history of cinema in between our feature films.
No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
The great documentary subjects find you, you don't really search for them.
I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.
I know it might be kind of ironic, but I like funny films and documentaries.
To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.
As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,.
I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.
I think books make you think in a different way than movies and documentaries.
In some ways, the documentary form is a kind of trap and so is societal norms.
I like documentaries; I watch the Soccer Channel; I like the Military Channel.
I love documentaries. I love the format. I've been doing them for a long time.
I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).
I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.
News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.
People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.
People still come to Baltimore and say, "I didn't realize you made documentaries."
I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.
The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.
Every year, I'm depressed that so few of the documentaries I've loved break through.
In documentaries, you're confronted with reality; you can not manipulate or move it.
Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.
There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling.
You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.
Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.
I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.
I'm primarily an actor and only make documentaries when I see a story others have missed.
Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.
I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.
I am particularly pleased to see that there are so many women working in documentary film.
Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries.
I always thought of documentaries as films through which you find your voice as a narrator.
I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.
There's always the question when you're making a documentary if the talking heads will work.
I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.
Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.
If you're not doing it for the right reasons, then you'd be dumb to be making documentaries.
Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.
Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.
Music documentaries are tricky because of 'Spinal Tap.' That movie has stood the test of time.