“I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.” BelieveCareFilmCoursesI BelieveFictionTeachBalanceTake CareDocumentaries Author:Arnon Goldfinger
“In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.” Has BeensFilmFictionMaterialsDirectorsDocumentaries Book:Hitchcock Source: Hitchcock
“Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.” EndsHardFilmFictionForeverShootingEditingDocumentaries Author:Leos Carax
“I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.” WayFictionFilmmakerFilmmakingDocumentariesHeadings Author:Lucy Walker
“When I think about the new film, I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what I'm good at. I'm good at observing people's behavior and putting these unspoken things into movie contexts in ways that other people can sometimes miss.” PeopleThinkingWayWantI CanSometimesFilmCan DoFictionMissingBehaviorDocumentariesObservingUnspoken Author:Robert Greene
“We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.” IfsWayNeedsMeanMadeLinesFictionShapesBeing TrueDocumentariesAnother WayTextureAllegoryVagabonds Author:Agnes Varda
“I personally just want to do as many different things as I can do, whether it's comedy, drama, science fiction, horror, narrator... You've got a documentary, I've got a voice. Animated films. Big films, small films.” WantI CanDifferentBigsFilmVoiceCan DoFictionComedyDramaHorrorScience FictionDifferent ThingsDocumentariesAnimatedNarratorsAnimated Films Author:Colin Farrell
“I had worked in fiction a lot before I started making documentaries, but when I was around 32 or 33-years-old I suddenly got so fed up with the world of fiction, which is so money-centered.” WorldYearsFictionFedsDocumentariesFed Up Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the million that they don't have to make their film.” IfsWorldSaidTwoFilmFictionMillionsFilmmakerDocumentaries Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“In all my documentaries I did all the camera work, but in fiction I didn't want to do it myself. I think the machinery is so heavy and demanding that you would leave the actors alone for a long time.” ThinkingWantLongActorsFictionLong TimeCamerasHeavyDocumentariesMachinery Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“We exaggerate the difference between documentary and fiction. I think that on some level a fiction film is also a documentary on the actors. You can't wash away your life's history, which is written on your face, unless you get a facelift.” ThinkingFilmFacesActorsDifferencesLevelsFictionWrittenYour FaceDocumentariesFacelifts Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.” KindFilmFictionDocumentaries Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman
“You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a script, a lot more start-up resources. It may be self-perpetuating.” NeedsMaySelfFilmActorsFictionResourcesCamerasScriptsCrewDocumentariesPerpetuating Author:Thom Powers
“I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well organized and just as well predicated, but the big difference between me and you is that I'm honest and you're dishonest. I know I'm telling you lies.” KnowsBelieveWellsBigsLyingDifferencesFictionHonestInvolvedDon't BelieveLike MeFilmmakerOrganizedDocumentaries Author:Peter Greenaway
“I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fiction cinema terms and I think I tried to apply those ideas to documentaries and not vice versa.” ThinkingIdeasOpportunityTermFictionInvolvedIntentionVicesCinemaClassicDocumentariesVice Versa Author:John Hyams
“Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.” IfsInterestingFictionDocumentaries Author:Jean-Luc Godard
“In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.” MindFictionDistinctionDocumentariesGood Movie Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“One of the things I've been talking about with my critical writing and my own work is that these movies are seen differently in a theatrical space. It's very important to me. I edit films to be seen theatrically, like fiction material I've worked on like Listen Up Phillip or other documentaries.” WritingImportantFilmMy OwnSpaceFictionTalkingMaterialsCriticalDocumentariesEditsTheatrical Author:Robert Greene
“At the beginning of my career, I shot a lot more documentaries because I liked the adventure, and probably also because it was easier, and still is easier, for women DPs to shoot documentary than it is to shoot fiction.” StillsFictionCareersAdventureEasierShotsDocumentaries Author:Maryse Alberti
“I have a 22-year-old son, and when my son was born I made a decision to raise him. My husband and I took turns working, and it's easier to raise a kid in the documentary world, where you go away for two weeks or three weeks rather than the months that you spend on a feature. That was and still is much more open to women DPs than the world of fiction.” WorldYearsMadeStillsTwoKidsTurnsThreeBornDecisionFictionWeekSonMonthsEasierHusbandRaisesFeaturesGoing AwayMy HusbandMy SonDocumentariesTwo Weeks Author:Maryse Alberti
“There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this side is not the crux of the matter.” WorldMatterSidesFictionNovelScience FictionFantasticDocumentsDocumentariesCrux Author:Amos Oz
“Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual literal truth of an event.” RealityFictionEventsEmotionalHopefullyRealisticDocumentariesNon FictionLiteralHyperCondensation Author:Joe Berlinger
“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 interested in designing and creating documentaries like fiction, so it was a natural evolution to try and embark on doing a dramatic narrative.” TryingSpiritNaturalFictionDesignEvolutionCreatingNarrativeCinemaDramaticDominantDocumentariesNon Fiction Author:Brett Morgen
“I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've stood up on the stage and given your speech about the healing power of fiction.” WorldDoeGivenHealingFictionStageSpeechCrisisAround The WorldImmigrantsDocumentariesStood Up Author:George Saunders
“This whole business of documentary being a second-class citizen is bullshit. A documentary can be as interesting, as dramatic, as sad, as funny, blah, blah, blah, as a fiction movie. Or it can be as awful as a fiction movie!” WholeInterestingFictionClassCitizensAwfulDramaticBullshitDocumentariesBlahSecond Class Citizens Author:Frederick Wiseman
“I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what I'm good at. I'm good at observing people's behavior and putting these unspoken things into movie contexts in ways that other people can sometimes miss.” PeopleThinkingWayWantI CanSometimesCan DoFictionMissingBehaviorDocumentariesObservingUnspoken Author:Robert Greene
“I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.” BelieveRealityFictionIllusionObjectivesDocumentariesObjective Reality Author:Mike Mills