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Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.

Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

I'd like to make documentaries. Way-out documentaries. I'd like to do one on a tour of the U.S.

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

I make documentaries. I attend film festivals. I don't have time to sit at cafes taking selfies.

There's a lot of documentaries out in the world; it sometimes seems as if there's no topic left!

I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.

I love every single genre from documentaries, horror, comedy, drama, '80s, classic, I have it all.

You make documentaries because you love doing it; it's the only sane reason to make documentaries.

I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.

Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.

Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.

I'm a big watcher of sports, consumer of sports content, so I love documentaries; I love the format.

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.

I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all.

Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.

Documentaries sometimes can be shot over 10 years. You plan to stop in two, but you still gotta catch more.

People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain.

I like independent movies, documentaries. There's not a lot of movies that are commercially made that I dig.

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

I have always felt that documentaries are an opportunity for me to witness a world that I know nothing about.

My time in documentaries was very educating, in terms of life experience as well as the filmmaking side of it.

I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.

I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.

With Netflix, I browse; I watch documentaries about things I'd never dream of, but I think, 'I might as well.'

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving.

Joe Berlinger's documentary 'Whitey' is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can't take your eyes off the screen.

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of.

I love making documentaries. But I do like other factual entertainment as well, and I like doing the lighter stuff.

I love watching documentaries on people like 'clean freaks,' because it's just so interesting to me for some reason.

Documentaries require an enormous amount of grit and empathy - and that is something women are incredibly strong at.

You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.

It was through watching documentaries on the BBC in the late 1980s that I first became interested in art and history.

When making documentaries, the most important thing I learned was to listen, observe gestures and facial expressions.

I am mostly at home and I do my housework, I read and I love watching documentaries. In short, I love staying at home.

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

People look to cinema to spread the word and to tell these wonderful, outrageous stories or true-to-life documentaries.

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

I was no stranger to risk myself, having made documentaries in dangerous conditions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Africa.

The thing that's made me open my eyes to what was happening to the environment and climate was films and documentaries.

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

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