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… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
People should genuinely care about stand-up. I'm not doing this just so I can do x, y, and z on TV. It's… — Tom Rosenthal Copy Share Image
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… — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
I'm interested in a realization that's hiding beneath the surface, and maybe that's what documentaries can do best, is to try to… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
I've been in entertainment, politics, business, business coaching, public affairs, documentaries, programming, news, theater. So, there aren't many things I see that… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
I never uttered a word about things, but with my age now, I've completely lost all reservations. In more ways than one.… — Giovanna Cau Copy Share Image
A picture that is ghostly and silent can be more eloquent and less clichéd than a noisier photo-journalistic approach and I have… — Simon Norfolk Copy Share Image
I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
It's rare in a documentary film that you have a repetitive act. So when you do, you can shoot it in different… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
I personally just want to do as many different things as I can do, whether it's comedy, drama, science fiction, horror, narrator...… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
I think being really open to this new world of online and what it means to be online. Also, understanding that maybe… — Alex Stapleton Copy Share Image
I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
It's the best - combining the mediums of television, documentary, and books, to give you this transmedia experience for kids, for families,… — Jeff Corwin Copy Share Image
I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
I have tried reading the Bible but that's a tough read there. I watch a lot of religious documentaries. I have a… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there. — Jamie Bell Copy Share Image
When critics talk about Three, they talk about 'Don't Tell the Bride' and 'Snog Marry Avoid?,' but we're also making important documentaries.… — Stacey Dooley Copy Share Image
There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary,… — Lloyd Kaufman Copy Share Image
Theatre is filled w/ passion, risk and drama (as much behind-the-curtain as on stage), perfect ingredients for documentary storytelling. — Dori Berinstein Copy Share Image
We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect… — Bjork Copy Share Image
When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary. — Diane Cilento Copy Share Image
I've always intended to eventually make films. I've always been very aware of tone and shots. But documentaries are a great proving… — George Ratliff Copy Share Image
There have been so many stories about alcoholism and drugs. Eating disorders are also a form of abuse, but rarely a theme… — Sanna Lenken Copy Share Image
The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Because in this business, as you know, you don't get that many bites at the apple, so I make documentaries for HBO… — Alexandra C. Pelosi Copy Share Image
A lot of documentaries are about something that already happened, but I think people are kind of afraid to let the story… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
When I left 'American Morning' in 2007, I'd focused on doing documentaries. But I thought 'Starting Point' was a great opportunity to… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
My time in documentaries was very educating, in terms of life experience as well as the filmmaking side of it. — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films. — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I love to travel, which is sort of why I do documentaries and why I'm in this whole world of movies -… — Fisher Stevens Copy Share Image
I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that… — Timothy Bottoms Copy Share Image
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