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To make a documentary is one thing, to make a
feature film is quite another.
(Dennis Hopper)
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FORA DOCUMENTARY
FILMMAKER, I DO
VERY WELL
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Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of
social ostracism cannot be taken away.
(Derek Jarman)
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A fully developed bureaucratic
mechanism stands in the same
relationship to other forms as
does the machine to the
non-mechanical production of
goods. Precision, speed, clarity,
documentary ability, continuity,
discretion, unity, rigid
subordination, reduction of
friction and material and
personal expenses are unique to
bureaucratic organization.
Max Weber
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I love those
documentaries where
everyone is fabulous and
always perfect
Katy Perry
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One of the reasons to do
documentaries is that. There's
more sense of creating
something, more sense of my
own soul in the documentaries
than in movies, because I don't
write the movies I do.
Michael Apted
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"WHEN I HEAR THE WORD 'DOCUMENTARY,' I
DON'T THINK CERTAIN THINGS SHOULD BE LEFT
OUT. YOU'VE GOT TO KEEP IT 100 PERCENT AS
MUCH AS YOU CAN, UNLESS YOUR GROUP HAS A
MEETING BEFOREHAND AND SAYS, 'YO - DON'T
SAY THIS, 'CAUSE BOOM, BOOM, BOOM.' OTHER
THAN THAT, IT'S A DOCUMENTARY SO LET'S
DOCUMENT, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?"
PHIFE DAWG
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It is a well-documented fact
that guys will not ask for
directions. This is a biological
thing. This is why it takes
several million sperm cells ... to
locate a female egg, despite the
fact that the egg is, relative to
them, the size of Wisconsin.
Dave
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MIND EXPANDING DOCUMENTARIES
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I was painting sets, working in
editorial as an assistant, driving
their trucks, lying that I knew
how to drive a truck, and doing
commercials and documentaries.
Richard Donner
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my ADVICE TO ALL
NEW MEXICANS IS
DOCUMENT,
DOCUMENT,
DOCUMENTYOUR
LOSSES.
Gary Johnson
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I've always been a fiction
filmmaker and I've been
heading in the direction of
fiction filmmaking, doing
documentaries along the way.
Lucy Walker
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"MY WIFE LIKES HISTORY AND
DOCUMENTARIES, BUT I'M NOT SO KEEN ON
THEM. I GENERALLY GO AND DO SOME WORK IF
THERE'S ONE OF THOSE ON."
ANDREW DAVIES
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You know, let a few years go by until I hit my
midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on
film.
(Claire Danes)
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The delicate balance of mentoring
someone is not creating them in
your own image, but giving them the
opportunity to create themselves.
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Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking. Votes: 4

Griffin Dunne
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You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism. Votes: 4

Tim Hetherington
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul. Votes: 4

Theodore Bikel
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Documentaries are my favorite thing, and the more depressing, the better. Votes: 3

Maria Thayer
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. Votes: 3

Alfred Hitchcock
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Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'. Votes: 3

Steven Spielberg
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I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or quarter-fiction. The two should not go together. They cannot mix. Votes: 3

Elie Wiesel
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You see reality TV and it's not reality TV. It's contrived and everything is plotted and scripted nearly. Documentaries are the same and just as bad. Votes: 3

Ricky Gervais
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Documentaries are unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to people, a narrative always emerges. Votes: 3

Cosima Spender
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Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir. Votes: 3

Olivia Wilde
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The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me. Documentaries are also cheaper, they are more accessible to make. Votes: 3

Richard Ray Perez
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Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened. Votes: 3

Krzysztof Kieslowski
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I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with which you can hear something's going on, somebody's going to be somewhere: That sounds so interesting. Pick up your camera and go. Votes: 3

Jonathan Demme
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I love those documentaries where everyone is fabulous and always perfect. Votes: 2

Katy Perry
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My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries. Votes: 2

Lasse Hallstrom
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I want to do a documentary about strippers, 'cause it's a moneymaker. Votes: 2

Method Man
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You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise. Votes: 2

Werner Herzog
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We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second. Votes: 2

Colin Mochrie
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So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them. Votes: 2

Michael Apted
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Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up. Votes: 2

Michael Rapaport
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I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer. Votes: 2

Beau Bridges
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And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money. Votes: 2

Michael Patrick Jann
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I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received. Votes: 2

Matthew Gray Gubler
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When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries. Votes: 2

Norman Jewison
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I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries. Votes: 2

Richard Donner
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In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out. Votes: 2

Ava DuVernay
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It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. Votes: 2

Rod Serling
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When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum in the 1950s, shooting film. Votes: 2

David Suchet
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We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story. Votes: 2

Bradley Whitford
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Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date. Votes: 2

Cilla Black
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Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening Votes: 2

Brian De Palma
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I wouldn't call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers. And I do watch TV, but only informative programmes like the news and documentaries. Votes: 2

Adora Svitak
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After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like Votes: 2

Robin Tunney
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I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people. Votes: 2

Timothy Bottoms
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If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world. Votes: 2

Richard Donner
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There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary, if it was on 16mm. But, with the magic of digital. Votes: 2

Lloyd Kaufman
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This consists of a series of meetings that may last several days through which information is provided that may include reviewing documentaries, news programs, court records and certain reports about the group in question. Votes: 2

Rick Ross
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I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. Votes: 2

Steven Spielberg
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At home, I watch fights and documentaries - that's it. If it's not about the birth and death of stars, 'Frozen Planet,' or someone getting punched in the face, I'm probably not watching it. Votes: 2

Ronda Rousey
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Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape. There is this breed of gimmicky documentary that is basically a reality show. Votes: 2

Todd Phillips
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In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle. Votes: 2

Sun Myung Moon
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I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films. Votes: 2

Ken Burns
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My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob. Votes: 2

Michael Ian Black
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My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me. Votes: 2

John Cleese
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Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of. Votes: 2

Kurt Cobain
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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history. Votes: 2

Joseph Conrad
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In documentary we deal with the actual, and in one sense with the real. But the really real, if I may use that phrase, is something deeper than that. The only reality which counts in the end is the interpretation which is profound Votes: 2

John Grierson
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Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world. Votes: 2

Ann Macbeth
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I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true. Votes: 2

Steven Yeun
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When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War. Votes: 2

Trevor Nunn
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All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries. Votes: 2

Jeremy Northam
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My background is sociology. Combined with my graphic approach, if I could do some film projects, I think I'd be very good at making documentaries eventually, but people don't think of me for that, of course. But dialogue is something I know I can be good at. Votes: 2

David Carson
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I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if it's worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way. Votes: 2

Theophilus London
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Critics can say what they like about the films, but very often, there's a certain expectation of documentaries that they're supposed to be like PowerPoint presentations. I see documentaries as movies. So when I see some critics writing that we could have done without the recreations altogether - well, perhaps. Votes: 2

Alex Gibney
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I saw 'The Grand Budapest Hotel.' I liked it. I saw 'The Fault in Our Stars,' and I could see why young girls like it. But it dropped off like crazy in the second weekend. I liked 'Fed Up' - I love documentaries. I go to a lot of documentaries. Votes: 2

Rob Reiner
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I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid. Votes: 2

Sophia Bush
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I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries. Votes: 2

Michael Moore
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I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as discreet as possible, and flexible enough to be able to capture the moment when it happens. I know from documentary how to not have a preconceived idea of what the scene could be. Votes: 2

Michel Gondry
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I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on Head Start, on poverty. But I was struck by the children, and the damage that poverty was doing to them. I didn't think filming them was helping much, so I wondered how we could use TV for them, to teach them. Votes: 2

Joan Ganz Cooney
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No one likes documentaries. Votes: 0

Alex Gibney
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I hate making TV documentaries. Votes: 0

Jamie Oliver
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I'm a massive sucker for music documentaries. Votes: 0

Stephen Mangan
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I love documentaries, I like observing real people. Votes: 0

Tracey Ullman
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I came from a background of directing behind-the-scenes documentaries. Votes: 0

Peyton Reed
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Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries. Votes: 0

Chris Lilley
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I love documentaries and I watch documentaries to no end. Votes: 0

Michael Pena
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I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life. Votes: 0

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
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I've done several commercials and I've done voiceovers for documentaries. Votes: 0

Jeff Bridges
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I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film. Votes: 0

Jamie Bell
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I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television. Votes: 0

Robert Zemeckis
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I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else. Votes: 0

Don DeLillo
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I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order). Votes: 0

Tig Notaro
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I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained. Votes: 0

Meshell Ndegeocello
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I love going on BBC6 and BBC7 and listening to documentaries. Votes: 0

Burn Gorman
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There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling. Votes: 0

Owen Hart
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People still come to Baltimore and say, "I didn't realize you made documentaries." Votes: 0

John Waters
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I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology. Votes: 0

Jason Silva
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The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important. Votes: 0

Roger Ross Williams
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In documentaries, you're confronted with reality; you can not manipulate or move it. Votes: 0

Jean-Pierre Dardenne
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With documentaries, you go in with an open-mind but knowing what you want. Votes: 0

Chris Metzler
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I'm strictly a movie person. I mean, I watch the HBO documentaries and Netflix. Votes: 0

Maria Thayer
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Every year, I'm depressed that so few of the documentaries I've loved break through. Votes: 0

David Edelstein
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Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries. Votes: 0

Pirjo Honkasalo
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I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features. Votes: 0

James Marsh
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Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me. Votes: 0

Michael Moore
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People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries. Votes: 0

Derek Jarman
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I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries. Votes: 0

Martin Parr
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Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking. Votes: 0

Barbara Kopple
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People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever. Votes: 0

Laura Prepon
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Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same. Votes: 0

Terry Zwigoff
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People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain. Votes: 0

James Nesbitt
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I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess. Votes: 0

Maria Thayer
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I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries. Votes: 0

A. J. Cook
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I like independent movies, documentaries. There's not a lot of movies that are commercially made that I dig. Votes: 0

Jeff Garlin
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I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too. Votes: 0

Dick Van Dyke
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Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. Votes: 0

Marion Cotillard
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I've long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special. Votes: 0

Joe Morgenstern
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I have always felt that documentaries are an opportunity for me to witness a world that I know nothing about. Votes: 0

Chris Hegedus
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I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you. Votes: 0

Billy Connolly
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I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films. Votes: 0

Jonathan Demme
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That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself. Votes: 0

Kofi Siriboe
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When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty. Votes: 0

Betty Dodson
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I've made many documentaries, but prostitution was the hardest in terms of gaining the trust of the people being filmed. Votes: 0

Michael Glawogger
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Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure. Votes: 0

Wayne White
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I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true. Votes: 0

Bill Kurtis
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I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way. Votes: 0

Lucy Walker
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The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it. Votes: 0

Sonia Braga
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I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled. Votes: 0

Tatjana Patitz
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Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape. Votes: 0

Todd Phillips
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Paradoxically, in the field being a woman actually helps you: people often feel more comfortable talking to women, which is key in documentaries. Votes: 0

Cosima Spender
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Even the best documentaries reach tens of thousands in their cinematic window. I believe that by launching online, we could potentially reach millions. Votes: 0

Sam Branson
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I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life. Votes: 0

Dave Grohl
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Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries. Votes: 0

Fran Lebowitz
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I have made more documentaries in my time than I think I care to remember, though I am immensely proud of all my work. Votes: 0

Charles Guggenheim
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I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema and documentaries. Votes: 0

Pamela Yates
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It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise. Votes: 0

Werner Herzog
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I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it. Votes: 0

Shawn Ryan
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The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas. Votes: 0

Clive James
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I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature. Votes: 0

Frank Marshall
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I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is an important issue. Votes: 0

Haskell Wexler
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I've always intended to eventually make films. I've always been very aware of tone and shots. But documentaries are a great proving ground for me. Votes: 0

George Ratliff
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I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time. Votes: 0

Julian Assange
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When I left 'American Morning' in 2007, I'd focused on doing documentaries. But I thought 'Starting Point' was a great opportunity to be involved in the zeitgeist. Votes: 0

Soledad O'Brien
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I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go. Votes: 0

Henry Rollins
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My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on. Votes: 0

Andrew Davies
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I don't normally make documentaries. I'm a drama director. I've made a few short docs, but I don't like talking heads or 'voice of God' narrators. Votes: 0

Asif Kapadia
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I mostly like documentaries, so I always think things that happened in real life are so astounding that why would you make a movie about something fake. Votes: 0

Jonah Hill
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I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a narrative in the editing room. Votes: 0

Mira Nair
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I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the 'CBS Evening News.' You could see that the audiences were eroding. Votes: 0

Howard Stringer
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I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that you should do documentaries. Votes: 0

Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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There have been so many stories about alcoholism and drugs. Eating disorders are also a form of abuse, but rarely a theme in feature films that aren't documentaries. Votes: 0

Sanna Lenken
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That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think. Votes: 0

Walter Salles
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Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them. Votes: 0

Daniel Berrigan
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Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them Votes: 0

Daniel Berrigan
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I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor. Votes: 0

Felix Dennis
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I've been in entertainment, politics, business, business coaching, public affairs, documentaries, programming, news, theater. So, there aren't many things I see that I haven't seen something like that before. Votes: 0

Roger Ailes
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I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't know very much, trying to communicate. Votes: 0

Michael Palin
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I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form and take you on a journey. Votes: 0

Barry Levinson
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I wasn't really that informed about the two-year-old. Oh, I'd read about them, and occasionally I'd see documentaries on the Discovery Channel showing two-year-olds in the wild, where they belong.. Votes: 0

Ray Romano
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I have tried reading the Bible but that's a tough read there. I watch a lot of religious documentaries. I have a keen interest in religion for someone who's not religious. Votes: 0

Jim Jefferies
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I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about. Votes: 0

Jonathan Demme
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After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like. Votes: 0

Robin Tunney
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We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect interesting documentaries and films, and watch a few nights a week. Votes: 0

Bjork
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For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them. Votes: 0

Werner Herzog
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I made the transition to directing documentaries with the great help of my Co-Director on The World According to Sesame Street, Linda Hawkins Costigan. She was a gracious teacher, and a wonderful collaborator. Votes: 0

Linda Goldstein Knowlton
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I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new facts and perspectives - each project can involve years of research. Votes: 0

James Marsh
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I came from a very avant-garde documentary kind of film making world. I like cinema verité, documentaries. I liked non-story, non-character tone poems. And that's the film making that I was interested in. Votes: 0

George Lucas
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When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on the sides and all around you. I like that in my films. Votes: 0

Bruce Weber
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I like giving music-themed gifts. I've given a couple of music documentaries to boys. Especially if they don't have the same taste as me, I try to infiltrate their mind with my favourite bands. Votes: 0

Bella Heathcote
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I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries. Votes: 0

Leonard Maltin
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I had worked in fiction a lot before I started making documentaries, but when I was around 32 or 33-years-old I suddenly got so fed up with the world of fiction, which is so money-centered. Votes: 0

Pirjo Honkasalo
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I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by family values, which so many of these country songs are related to. Votes: 0

Clifton Collins, Jr.
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When I have had a long day at work, I want something to watch that is funny, lighthearted and easy to get into, and reality is that. I'm not really into serious programmes or documentaries. Votes: 0

Amy Childs
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I'm a huge fan of the Ken Burns documentary style, big time. I love documentaries full stop. I'm a big documentary fan. That's my reality. I don't like reality TV. I like it like that. Votes: 0

Phil Morris
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In all my documentaries I did all the camera work, but in fiction I didn't want to do it myself. I think the machinery is so heavy and demanding that you would leave the actors alone for a long time.

Pirjo Honkasalo
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I think I did fifteen long features and fifteen documentaries, or something like this, which is very little when you think of people making a film every year. Some people have done fifty or sixty films.

Agnes Varda
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I love to travel, which is sort of why I do documentaries and why I'm in this whole world of movies - you get to meet amazing people and see how other people live. It opens your eyes. That's what I love.

Fisher Stevens
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There's a plethora of wonderful documentaries. I made a point of not looking at anyone else's portrayal of Henry because I think it would have been too confusing - so I've got a lot of films to look forward to.

Eric Bana
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I never uttered a word about things, but with my age now, I've completely lost all reservations. In more ways than one. I was never in front of the camera, for example, but now I've been in films and documentaries.

Giovanna Cau
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As far as documentaries go, I believe unreservedly that they serve an important function in our culture. I'd love to be able to make both documentaries and feature films simultaneously, but so far that hasn't happened.

Hirokazu Koreeda
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All I've ever wanted to do is take stills of people, or take documentaries about people, and try to express to an audience how somebody lives next door. You know what I mean? Just how similar we all are as individuals.

Roger Deakins
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At the beginning of my career, I shot a lot more documentaries because I liked the adventure, and probably also because it was easier, and still is easier, for women DPs to shoot documentary than it is to shoot fiction.

Maryse Alberti
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Unlike a lot of British directors, I hadn't done any theater. But, I had a great mentor who said, "What you're looking for is exactly the same thing you've done in your documentaries, which is moments of emotional truth.

Susanna White
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The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found the truth in the stories I was telling as a doc, I could teach myself filmmaking through doc filmmaking.

Ava DuVernay
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From film to film, even documentaries, I was learning the medium and learning how to bring form into some kind of relationship with the content, how to work it, and above all, how to create some kind of order out of chaos.

Pawel Pawlikowski
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They kept asking me over and over again whether I was having a romance with Hitler. Are you Hitler's girlfriend? I laughed and answered the same way each time: No, those are false rumours. I only made documentaries for him...

Leni Riefenstahl
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My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob. And proud of it.

Michael Ian Black
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A lot of work was done with one of my best friends and editor, Spencer Averick, who's edited everything I've ever made from the very, very first documentaries; the very, very first films I made were docs, so we learned the form together.

Ava DuVernay
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I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fiction cinema terms and I think I tried to apply those ideas to documentaries and not vice versa.

John Hyams
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I think there have been so many documentaries about pop stars, made by pop stars. It's a new phenomenon. People making these movies where they praise themselves and show their own weaknesses. it's all designed to make you love them even more.

Judd Apatow
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When I first started, I saw myself shooting documentaries or making documentaries, which is what I did, mostly, for a number of years. So it was quite a surprise how I found myself shooting features. It was like my wildest dreams as a kid collided.

Roger Deakins
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First of all, being a woman is an incredible asset in many ways in making documentaries. You can be less intimidating, you have a heightened emotional sensitivity and you have the ability to listen to multiple conversations at one time and multi-task.

Ondi Timoner
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I make films about people with disabilities as well and I think this question is more relevant in regards to these documentaries where the actual person appears on film. I know these people are proud of who they are and what they are doing with their lives.

Arthur Bradford
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The main reason why I'm a documentary filmmaker is the power of the medium. The most powerful films I've seen have been documentaries. Of course, there are some narrative films that I could never forget, but there are more documentaries that have had that impact on me.

Richard Ray Perez
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I started by studying Kiswahili to learn the dialect. Then, I studied tapes, documentaries, footage, and audio cassettes of Idi Amin's speeches. And I met with his brothers, his sisters, his ministers, his generals' all kinds of people, in order to try to understand him.

Forest Whitaker
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You can't be serious," Eve said. "Guys. People get eaten in places like this. At the very least, we get locked in a room and terrible, evil things get done to us and put on the Internet. I've seen the movies." "Eve," Michael said. "Horror movies are not documentaries.

Rachel Caine
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We've never had a situation where mass media has been so censored, at least in my lifetime. When I was younger, networks like NBC, CBS, were independently owned, and took their jobs as journalists seriously. There used to be documentaries like "The Selling of the Pentagon."

Jello Biafra
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When I watch my early documentaries, they're very eclectic. They don't follow any particular [pattern]. I would have gotten thrown out of film school because I didn't. I was just putting them together somehow as the spirit moved me, following my nose, thinking I was brilliant.

Pawel Pawlikowski
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My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly interested in designing and creating documentaries like fiction, so it was a natural evolution to try and embark on doing a dramatic narrative.

Brett Morgen
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