In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role. — Liz W. Garcia Copy Share Image
Making a documentary, there are thousands of choices, all the time: the angles and the pace and the choice of characters, the… — Andreas Koefoed Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen to a comedian is to do a documentary on your life and you're watching it with… — David Steinberg Copy Share Image
My first narrative films developed out of a documentary process - finding someone who was willing to be filmed, watching, listening, taking… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I don't believe you can make an honest film about another person in all their complexities from a place of distance. You… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I am deeply honored to be making 'Life Itself,' a documentary on the life of Roger Ebert, and to have had the… — Steve James Copy Share Image
For some reason or other there was in me the desire to see the world clean and fresh and alive, as primitive… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
There is a porous membrane between a documentary that doesn't use interviews and what you would call a neorealist hybrid film. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
When you're shooting a feature that costs $200,000 a day with a crew of 250, you don't want accidents; you want to… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Ben Affleck exec-produced a documentary for HBO called 'Reporter' about my 2007 win-a-trip journey. I take the trip each year partly to… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
The trend for documentaries will never go away, because everybody wants to learn about the world. The world is awful in parts,… — Daisy Ridley Copy Share Image
'This is Spinal Tap' was a film we felt really had to be done like that. It wouldn't have worked any other… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
I've seen 'Endless Summer' more than any other documentary. I don't even like surfing, but I just love Bruce Brown's positivity. He's… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
It is clear from a common sense viewing of the program that coarse language is a part of the culture of the… — Jonathan Adelstein Copy Share Image
The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to… — Mark Rydell Copy Share Image
I have wondered if I might be placed on a watch list of some sort by the government, though. I know that… — Marshall Curry Copy Share Image
If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
In documentary, mostly, people are going to say untoward things; people are going to have gnarly beliefs. People aren't perfect. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
But if anyone so much as threatened them because of what Kaia had once done, she would turn the Slumber Party Massacre… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
I've always loved Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and I watched the Petty documentary 'Running Down A Dream'. I was directly influenced,… — Robert Coppola Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
If you care about the 2012 election and value the voices of regular Americans who lost hope in their hope and change… — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
I was asked to be part of a Hal Ashby documentary with the premise that Ashby is overlooked. I love 'Shampoo' but… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
Documentaries are unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to… — Cosima Spender Copy Share Image
I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
A film based on my life would not be as interesting as my father. I have not lived a life as enriching… — Pooja Bhatt Copy Share Image
Maybe today I would call Fred Leuchter and there would be two or three other documentary filmmakers interested in his story simply… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
We make movies to endorse our own personal feelings. I am not, in fact, a documentary filmmaker. I've got my personal beliefs,… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
As far as documentaries go, I believe unreservedly that they serve an important function in our culture. I'd love to be able… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty. — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
Every time I watch a history of cinema - or a documentary on film - it will show eleven men talking about… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
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… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
The film [Dream of Life] came together when we started editing; it was organic, it became nonlinear and it was its own… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his… — Martin Bashir Copy Share Image
But after the TED talk went viral, I called Sara Hirsh Bordo, who had produced TEDxAustinWomen, to ask her advice. She told… — Lizzie Velasquez Copy Share Image
I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
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