“I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don't think I could do it like I used to do it.” ThinkingWayWantPersonsWould BeFilmUsedInterestingNiceBandTransitionFascinatedVentureDocumentaries Author:Ryan McGinley
“I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.” FilmWatchesInformationDocumentaries Author:Meshell Ndegeocello
“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.” YearsFilmActorsFatherLeftCompanySixSevenUniversityReliefWakingDocumentariesSeven YearsDocumentary Films Author:Sam Neill
“I don't have a horror film in me just because I don't like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary in me, and I certainly have dramas.” FilmDramaHorrorScaredDocumentariesHorror Film Author:Todd Phillips
“In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.” StillsStoriesFilmFoundObjectsElementsMatureStorytellerDocumentariesGood StoryArcsDocumentary FilmsFound Objects Author:Garth Stein
“Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.” WorldYearsFilmGrowthInvolvedTenTrainingHappeningsReflectionYears AgoImmenseDocumentariesMineralsMining Author:Ann Macbeth
“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
“I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary. It was Mick Jagger's idea.The other one was Simple Plan, based on a novel by Scott Smith. It's a great book - really stark, not a comedy - about a guy who finds $4 million in a plane crash and decides to keep it.” FirstsTwoBookIdeasFilmGuySimpleHalfMillionsNovelComedyPlansWrittenProjectsStonesFollowingPlanesConcertsCrashRollingDocumentariesStarksRolling StonesGreat BookPseudoTwo GuysJaggerPlane CrashesSimple Plan Author:Ben Stiller
“You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.” WritingKindChildrenRealStoriesFilmFoundNiceShort StoryDocumentariesFormatShort LoveShort FilmsDyslexicWriting ShortWriting Short Stories Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I never uttered a word about things, but with my age now, I've completely lost all reservations. In more ways than one. I was never in front of the camera, for example, but now I've been in films and documentaries.” WayAgeFilmLostFrontsExampleCamerasDocumentariesReservations Author:Giovanna Cau
“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
“A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.” Has BeensReasonFilmMaterialsEducationalDocumentariesMills Book:Film as Art Source: Film as Art
“People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.” PeopleFilmFantasticDocumentaries Author:Derek Jarman
“I'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary, even if I don't have the full funding yet. So you have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter.” IfsMatterFilmRoomsSubjectsBusyEditingDocumentariesFundingSubject MatterEditsTediousDocumentary Films Author:Haile Gerima
“I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of the documentaire de création where the film, if successful, is not about something but that something itself. The goal is to incorporate areas of risk and paradox that we associate with cinematic art.” IfsArtFilmGoalSuccessfulRiskStandardsAreasTraditionParadoxFormulasAmbitiousAssociatesDocumentariesCinematicNarrationDidactic Author:Damian Pettigrew
“When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum in the 1950s, shooting film.” LittlesMadeRealFilmPoorRoundsLondonHillsShootingDocumentariesSlumsNotting Hill Author:David Suchet
“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 several cities in Mexico.” FilmCitiesOriginalsMexicoDocumentariesFestivalsFilm FestivalsDocumentary Films Author:Gael Garcia Bernal
“For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.” FilmFantasyClearFeaturesDistinctionDocumentaries Author:Werner Herzog