Cinema Quote by Griffin Dunne Download Open image “Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.” — Griffin Dunne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Documentaries Filmmaker Filmmaking Inspiration Inspired Narrative Storytelling
Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking. — Barbara Kopple Copy Share Image
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… — Brett Morgen Copy Share Image
Documentary films have always been my passion, I have done documentaries. — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films. — Walter Salles Copy Share Image
My first narrative films developed out of a documentary process - finding someone who was willing to be filmed, watching, listening, taking copious notes… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fiction… — John Hyams Copy Share Image
The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Ray Perez Copy Share Image
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 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 long form… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
The biggest misconception is that I'm only a documentary filmmaker, but in fact I have made many narrative shorts. My biggest inspirations are narrative… — Alex Hammond Copy Share Image
Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises. — Griffin Dunne Copy Share Image
When you're directing, I feel like I'm playing all the parts, without the make-up. I really get into the heads of the characters. — Griffin Dunne Copy Share Image
On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all. — Griffin Dunne Copy Share Image
It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which… — Griffin Dunne Copy Share Image
I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal… — Griffin Dunne Copy Share Image
My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound. — Griffin Dunne Copy Share Image
I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer. — Griffin Dunne Copy Share Image
Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration… — Griffin Dunne Copy Share Image
As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into… — Griffin Dunne Copy Share Image
I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the… — Griffin Dunne Copy Share Image
I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first. — Griffin Dunne Copy Share Image
To see a comedy in an environment where you're surrounded by other people that are laughing is great. That's probably more satisfying than just… — Griffin Dunne Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
