There are many documentary filmmakers who have a tough time because they don't really get what they need to do what they want. There are so many people with good visions that should be encouraged and helped. And they will deliver, I'm sure.Max von Sydow
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I've often thought even ragtag gatherings of documentary filmmakers are more fun than gatherings of fiction filmmakers.Marshall Curry
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My first job in the film business was working as a production assistant, and then a production manager on a documentary about Townes Van Zandt.Jeff Nichols
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My dad had made a documentary called 'The Dream Factory' about MGM, and my whole life, I just wanted to be inside it. And there I was.Marti Noxon
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I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures.Morgan Neville
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Lack of diversity in Hollywood has been well documented thanks to #OscarSoWhite, but lack of diversity in the documentary world is less talked about.Roger Ross Williams
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I love Humphrey Jennings. People ask me who my favorite documentary maker is, and he's certainly in the top three.Kevin Macdonald
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I'm still hesitant to call myself a journalist. I see myself as a documentary maker who is trusted with hard-hitting current affairs issues.Stacey Dooley
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I would love to make a documentary on my father, Mahesh Bhatt. What is interesting about Bhatt sahab is that he became more interesting personality after he left work.Pooja Bhatt
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People have said to me, 'Oh, you are much nicer making documentaries than you were in politics.' So I should be. If you are making a documentary, you are having fun. You are not under any pressure, normally.Michael Portillo
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I'm a happy person! I guess I'm not as much of a pessimist as most documentary filmmakers.Alexandra C. Pelosi
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I've watched 'Senna' - a documentary film about a Formula One driver - three or four times now. I'm not a massive Formula One fan but I watch it and think 'God, what a waste.'Edith Bowman
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I feel honoured to be making my third documentary with BBC Three and bringing visibility to this complex subject. The stats regarding eating disorders are shocking and I'm keen to explore reasons behind the rise.Zara McDermott
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The documentary in reality very much operates with these stereotypes in mind. You're either good or evil, you're either righteous or a criminal.John Wilson
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I have a strong background in, like, documentary and current affairs. I did a good five years of just food programming.Adam Pearson
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Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.Anita Diament
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Post my parents' divorce, when I was 10, my mother, Deepa Motwane, took up a job as a line producer with documentary filmmaker Shukla Das, who was a cousin of hers. When I was 17, she did a TV talk show and I helped her with research and assisted her as she was also producing that show.Vikramaditya Motwane
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Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all its brutal reality.Judy Parfitt
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With 'Street Fight,' it took an urban mayoral election and found lots of complexity in there. The same with 'Racing Dreams.' I wanted to show complexity within this world that most documentary people don't know anything about.Marshall Curry
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My documentary 'Split Decision' examines Cuban-American relations, and the economic and cultural paradoxes that have shaped them since Castro's revolution, through the lens of elite Cuban boxers forced to choose between remaining in Cuba or defecting to America.Brin-Jonathan Butler
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If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.Eddie Redmayne
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I feel like there's a lot of sympathy and camaraderie among documentary filmmakers.Morgan Neville
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All too often, white documentary filmmakers are the ones telling the stories of people of color.Roger Ross Williams
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We make movies to endorse our own personal feelings. I am not, in fact, a documentary filmmaker. I've got my personal beliefs, and I'm ready to put them out on the table.Rod Lurie
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Cinema is not truth. Even when you make documentary films, you can choose to show this shot and not the other shot - this side and not the other side. In cinema, there's one truth - not 'the truth.' It's only 'my point of view.' Cinema is powerful because of that.Rithy Panh
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If a film is entertaining, it will work irrespective of anything. It should be entertaining and engaging; otherwise, it becomes a documentary.Ayushmann Khurrana
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I like to watch movies - I just saw the documentary about Amy Winehouse, which was very good and emotional.Petra Kvitova
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I sometimes wonder, with the Oxbridge comics, the broadcasters seem to say, at some point, now I trust you to do a documentary, you can be the voice for a maths show, or whatever. I don't think we're ever considered in that way.Bob Mortimer
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One of the other things that I love about Miyazaki's films, is that when he sets a film in Europe, it's not a documentary - it doesn't really look like Europe, but it's something he internalises, synthesises and weaves into his work. I love seeing that cross-cultural exchange.Travis Knight
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If you're able to appeal to a broader market, you can make an entertaining narrative film. Whereas a documentary is something that only a very dedicated number of people are interested in.Nick Searcy
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Making a documentary on an issue that is not the easiest to have those conversations with people around you is something that I want to continue to do, because we start to break those stigmas and break down those walls.Zara McDermott
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I just wanted to do the documentary to shine a light on disability in perhaps a different way than I have done on television so far. But in a selfish way, it was about learning for myself. Getting to a stage where I felt able to talk about these feelings I've had over the years.Alex Brooker
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I remember the first time seeing myself on TV, when my family was watching the documentary 'Eyes on the Prize' for the first time. There were pictures of people going up the school stairs, and Mom said, 'Oh, that's you!' I said, 'I can't believe this. This is important.'Ruby Bridges
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The thing about documentary is that you don't really choose your subjects: they come and grab you out of your bed.Beeban Kidron
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Stories have a special way of putting us inside the people, inside the boots of the soldiers. You're absorbed in a way a documentary or nonfiction can't do for you.Tim O'Brien
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In the documentary 'Facing Ali,' nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despite speaking English, their speech slurred by the physical toll of their ring lives. This was their reward for testing their furthermost physical and mental boundaries.Brin-Jonathan Butler
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Movies, to a large extent, stand or fall on the strength of their scripts. But a documentary is a collection of found objects: fragments you've collected, accidents of interview and happenstance, pieces of stock footage that surface in the course of six to nine months of research and production.David Fanning
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I saw this documentary he did years ago called 'Fade to Black.' I was always a Jay Z fan - I liked Jay Z - but after I saw that documentary, I loved Jay Z. I realized how intelligent he was.Mahershala Ali
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While the documentary community is way ahead of Hollywood, it is still nowhere near where it needs to be. Filmmakers of color rarely get hired by the powerful production companies, and they are not getting supported enough by broadcasters and funders to tell their own stories.Roger Ross Williams
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I stay at home a lot by choice but go out a lot due to work. As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about as good as it gets for me.Paul Wesley
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When I do feature films, I usually have a very strong sense of what I want to do. I have topics and subjects, so I go for it. I even know technically what I want to. But in the case of documentary, the story comes to me.Rithy Panh
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I'm a documentary filmmaker, I know what it means to craft a story, especially when you've shot a lot of material.Max Joseph
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Making a documentary about my hometown was always going to be the most difficult topic I had ever covered! No question.Stacey Dooley
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I think you could very much make a 'Vanity Fair' in 2018, and I think it would probably look like a documentary.Tom Bateman
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I spoke to my father about making a documentary on him. I have been seriously contemplating that.Arbaaz Khan
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We were approached by Alison Ellwood about the idea of doing a documentary. At first, we were a bit nervous because we didn't want it come across as a salacious 'Behind The Music' kind of thing. Alison did such a great job. It really puts perspective on things.Charlotte Caffey
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I would say one of my favorite books is 'Blood Brothers,' a documentary about Malcolm X.Tobias Harris
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I feel like so much of what passes as documentary or reality TV is just so over-edited, and you don't get a real sense of who this person is.John Wilson
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Being in a worldwide documentary is not something you grow up thinking is going to happen to you, to be honest with you.Paul Mullin
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