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I think you could very much make a 'Vanity Fair' in 2018, and I think it would probably look like a documentary.
The thing about documentary is that you don't really choose your subjects: they come and grab you out of your bed.
I'm a documentary filmmaker, I know what it means to craft a story, especially when you've shot a lot of material.
I love Humphrey Jennings. People ask me who my favorite documentary maker is, and he's certainly in the top three.
As a documentary filmmaker, I couldn't afford to give my children the lifestyle I had in San Francisco growing up.
With a documentary, you can cut away, you can do jump cuts, cut to a photograph at any point to bridge two scenes.
I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.
I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.
The first thing that I ever made was a documentary that I shot... in downtown L.A. about a group of homeless people.
As a kid, I watched every Madonna documentary and tour. I was obsessed with her - and with any pop star of the '80s.
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.
Making a documentary about my hometown was always going to be the most difficult topic I had ever covered! No question.
I've often thought even ragtag gatherings of documentary filmmakers are more fun than gatherings of fiction filmmakers.
I always wanted to be in movies, but I never thought that in a million years there would be a documentary about my life.
The documentary genre, shows like 'Making a Murderer' and 'The Jinx' on HBO, there's been a whole raft of long-form docs.
The great thing about 'The Exorcist' is it's dead serious horror. No comedy, no self-reference, it's a documentary style.
People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.
Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
There is a porous membrane between a documentary that doesn't use interviews and what you would call a neorealist hybrid film.
I feel like we're going to see a lot more movies that mix documentary style with fiction, more along the lines of 'District 9.'
'America 24/7' will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age.
I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason.
In documentary, mostly, people are going to say untoward things; people are going to have gnarly beliefs. People aren't perfect.
A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand.
The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject.
I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.
A stand-up comedian who's assaultive and decent and has managed a career that has spanned over five decades deserves a documentary.
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
There's something about the lack of certainty with a documentary, which is exhausting if you do three in a row. It's nerve-wracking.
If a documentary crew were to follow me around, they'd probably think they were making a film about the saddest person in the world.
My dad had made a documentary called 'The Dream Factory' about MGM, and my whole life, I just wanted to be inside it. And there I was.
I'll read a book. I'll watch a documentary or a film or whatever. I'll go to an art exhibit and just try and open myself to influence.
In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day.
I am obsessed with John Mayer. I love him. I just think he's so talented. I have his documentary in my iTunes. I watch it all the time.
It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.
On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.
I, for one, personally like rom-coms, silly rom-coms, but at the same time, I also want to watch a documentary or an award-winning drama.
Raman Raghav' was shot on location, but there are many stylistic things in it. I like this mixture of documentary and extreme stylization.
I'm still hesitant to call myself a journalist. I see myself as a documentary maker who is trusted with hard-hitting current affairs issues.
I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up documentary journalism.
When I'm not singing, I'm a lot of persons: I'm a producer. I'm a badminton player. I'm a writer. I'm a movie freak. I'm a documentary maker.
I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.
A buddy of mine is doing a documentary on decisions, and they're not based on a ton of logic. It's mostly how you relate to them emotionally.
If a film is entertaining, it will work irrespective of anything. It should be entertaining and engaging; otherwise, it becomes a documentary.
I eat raw vegetables. But my 30 for 30 documentary better include sit-down interviews with Ronald McDonald, Colonel Sanders and Little Debbie.
My first job in the film business was working as a production assistant, and then a production manager on a documentary about Townes Van Zandt.
I don't have a horror film in me just because I don't like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary in me, and I certainly have dramas.
I watched the Sandra Bland documentary and her tape itself over and over and over and over again, and just the reality of that, the fear in that.
I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?