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Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?
I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.
I feel like there's a lot of sympathy and camaraderie among documentary filmmakers.
I'm not trying to acquire a reputation as serious documentary maker for its own sake.
Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
I don't know if I'd mastered that documentary format, but I wanted to move on from it.
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'd seen Jose Padilha's 'Elite Squad 1' and '2', and I'd seen his documentary, 'Bus 174'.
I have watched a documentary on Caster Semenya. I am inspired by how she made a comeback.
I'm a happy person! I guess I'm not as much of a pessimist as most documentary filmmakers.
I watched a documentary called 'Plastic Oceans' on Netflix, and it was an eye-opener for me.
I'll sit down for 'Stranger Things' or 'The Handmaid's Tale' - or a really good documentary.
'The Look' is my first documentary, and I enjoyed the freedom of working within a small team.
Singing for a documentary that benefits the underprivileged remains one of my biggest dreams.
Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.
I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.
Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.
All too often, white documentary filmmakers are the ones telling the stories of people of color.
I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.
There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.
I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.
I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
I spoke to my father about making a documentary on him. I have been seriously contemplating that.
I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.
I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.
I have taken advantage of my husband, to the extent that I even got HBO to do a documentary with me.
Documentary makers use other people's lives as their raw material, and that is morally indefensible.
And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.
In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.
When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary film was.
It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.
There was no model how to make a documentary production company work. I figured it out as I went along.
My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.
I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.
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.
When I'm filming a documentary, I feel like I should be the straight man, watching with a raised eyebrow.
When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.
I think the documentary is something that people are hungry for, that it embodies careful thought, nuance.
I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.
I like to watch movies - I just saw the documentary about Amy Winehouse, which was very good and emotional.
When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.
Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
Most women I know are not actresses, but they work for the U.N. or are documentary filmmakers, anthropologists.
I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.
The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.