“I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.” WatchesTelevisionDocumentaries Author:Robert Zemeckis
“I wanted to describe the world at the same time, through image, express what I felt. It was the time of the great documentary filmmakers: Richard Leacock, Joris Ivens. Today, television has put an end to this type of filmmaking.” WorldEndsTodayWantedFeltTelevisionTypeFilmmakerFilmmakingDocumentaries Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski
“I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of time and the changes in literary taste. The other poets mentioned are my poetic cohort from the U.K. I wrote the piece in situ, as it were, while making a television documentary about World War I in Germany.” WorldWarPiecesMeditationTelevisionPoetTasteRewardsFinancialPassingPassingsWar Of The WorldsGermanyPoeticIronicWorld War IDocumentariesLament Author:Simon Armitage
“Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.” MadeStillsRealityChangedTelevisionLandscapeDocumentariesReality Television Author:Todd Phillips
“There is so much investment in it of people's labor time that it will never make money. But there are other documentaries that you might make that are sort of on assignment for television that turn around in three to six months. Then the margin can be much be better for you because you're not spending three-and-a-half years on it. So I think if you're doing documentary films, that's sort of the way to look at it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayYearsLooksMightFilmTurnsThreeHalfTelevisionMonthsSixLaborInvestmentSpendingMaking MoneyDocumentariesSix MonthsMarginsAssignmentsHalf A YearDocumentary Films Author:Liz Garbus
“Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.” ThinkingFilmNumbersTelevisionElementsDistinctionImaginaryHonorableDocumentariesWishful Thinking Author:Ruth Ozeki
“I don`t know the facts surrounding Andrew Jarecki`s work. I think it`s a triumph of television. But it does raise troubling issues that I think we as a documentary community, you know, need to address.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsDoeFactsCommunityIssuesTelevisionRaisesTriumphAddressesDocumentariesAndrew Author:Joe Berlinger
“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 and take you on a journey.” LongFormJourneyTelevisionFascinatedDocumentariesTheatrical Author:Barry Levinson