Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.Spike Jonze
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Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the newspaper or turn on the radio or watch the news on TV there is another documentary subject. We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there?Jonathan Demme
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Singing for a documentary that benefits the underprivileged remains one of my biggest dreams.Arijit Singh
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In Delhi, I got a chance to assist someone on a documentary film. Then I moved to Mumbai. This was before the satellite TV. One had to assist a director for years before being able to direct a movie.Anubhav Sinha
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Growing up either from classes or watching movies I knew, of course, about kung fu, karate, aikido, Muay Thai... But the first time I saw Silat was when I was working on that documentary - the first time I properly saw it. I was just struck by the fact that it looks so different from other martial arts.Gareth Evans
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Look at the genres women like: a romantic comedy game doesn't exist. Few examples of a documentary game exist. What is the equivalent of a real drama game? They don't exist. Emotion with that complexity for a more mature, older audience are necessary to make medium-like video games healthy so it can be highly respected like the film industry.Jenova Chen
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We all identify with the people we see, and in a good documentary, we are not just reading an account of the world, we're seeing and hearing our world.Joshua Oppenheimer
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Why documentary about Iron Sheik? Lotta people, they ask me about my story. They ask me how the legend come from oldest country in the world, the Iran, to come to the America to become the legend.The Iron Sheik
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My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.Joshua Oppenheimer
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Directing plays lacked the immediacy and connection to real world events that journalism offered; journalism lacked the drama, theatricality and subjective storytelling of theater. It wasn't until I had the idea of making a documentary film about the 1992 presidential campaign that these two passions came together in 'The War Room.'R. J. Cutler
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Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary on the work, and as someone who held the sculpture in high esteem and who largely considered ballet to be the high-minded pursuit of privileged young girls, I was struck by what I would learn.Cathy Marie Buchanan
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I think making a documentary gets you out and about more, with people. With stand-up, you're talking at people. With documentaries you're talking with people, and you're listening a lot more.Ardal O'Hanlon
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In 1995 I decided to stop eating meat. I could never really quite explain why; I think it was something to do with watching a documentary where they cooked a cat and partly because I had a really crap job working for Wolves Poly and felt my life was slipping away. It definitely wasn't anything to do with any 'vegetarian month'.Rob Manuel
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Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.Naomi Wolf
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The Netflix thing with Nas is more of a documentary, where we kind of... talk. We go to my neighborhood. You get to see where I'm from and all that. And then, I'm in the studio with Nas.Dave East
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The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.Joel Edgerton
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You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.Dougray Scott
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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?Robert Redford
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As the world of independent feature filmmaking became increasingly commercialized by the mid-1990s, there was also a parallel, much more positive development: a resurgence in documentary filmmaking, thanks in part to the advent of the cheaper, lighter digital format that helped to offset the daunting costs of pursuing political aims through film.Alissa Quart
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'Panto!' is basically my life. It's not a comedy drama; it's a documentary. I was going to write an autobiography, but I thought I'd write this instead.John Bishop
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I watched the Michael Jordan documentary and it made me hungry, it made me want to get the best out of everyone so we can try and achieve something special.Ollie Watkins
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On Monday and Thursday, I eat fewer than 500 calories a day; then I eat like a pig for the other five days. You 'surprise' the body: keep it guessing. I got the idea from a BBC documentary about this Indian man who seemed about 138 years old and said his secret was severe calorie restriction.Jimmy Kimmel
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In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.Leslie Cockburn
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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.Arijit Singh
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I submerged myself in all the information that I could find about Idi Amin. I mean, before I left Los Angeles, I was studying Kiswahili. I was working on the dialect. I was studying every documentary and tape of him that I could find - not just visual, but also audiocassettes, even in other languages when he was speaking in other dialects.Forest Whitaker
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What's great about documentary, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of 'documentary.'Errol Morris
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I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found out I had conceived. My delivery was not easy - they call it 'labor,' not 'a vacation!' - but I was incredibly grateful that I did it that way.Sarah Wayne Callies
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With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories.Lucy Walker
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I think the documentary is something that people are hungry for, that it embodies careful thought, nuance.Beeban Kidron
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It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.Rick Springfield
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When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.Sam Neill
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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.Chloe Zhao
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Of course, when you're making a documentary, you don't have actors, but nonetheless, there is a writing process that does take place in the editing room.Rithy Panh
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But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the onset - that you are investigating, with a camera, and the story emerges as you go along.Errol Morris
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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.Bradley Whitford
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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 so stoked about everything he's talking about. He always thanks you at the end of his documentaries, which makes me tear up sometimes.John Wilson
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People who hate me call me a Twitter troll, which is laughable given my extensive body of work, which you can find on Amazon in the form of books like 'Gorilla Mindset' and my documentary on free speech, 'Silenced.'Mike Cernovich
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After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'Kirk Hammett
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.Sacha Baron Cohen
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My paid gigs allow me to pay for my documentaries, like a drug habit, I suppose. If I'm lucky enough to be working steady, however, it leaves little time for the documentary hobby.Robert B. Weide
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I feel like one of the things that I watched that I felt was really helpful in some way but, more than anything, is worth mentioning was this film 'Boogie Man.' It's a documentary about Lee Atwater.Ryan Gosling
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My obsession with documentary coincided with this job I had where I worked for a private investigator for about a year after graduating. I would watch all of this really banal footage every day and I would have to train myself to find these little moments to send to lawyers of people jumping out of wheelchairs and stuff like that.John Wilson
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I was brought up in Guildford, and I think I used to absorb all the suburban things - seeing coffee mornings, women talking... that stuff, really. I was watching Alan Ayckbourn on some documentary, and he was talking about how he was around a lot of women as a child, listening to all that stuff.Julia Davis
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On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.Mindy Kaling
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.Jack Brickhouse
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In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.'Naomi Wolf
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