1.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
Alfred Hitchcock
2.
It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.
Jonathan Demme
3.
I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.
Michael Rapaport
4.
There's a documentary film-maker called Werner Herzog, who's a German film-maker. I really dig his stuff, I'd love to chat with him.
Finn Jones
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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.
Haile Gerima
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Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
Naomi Wolf
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When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out.
Pamela Yates
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I am particularly pleased to see that there are so many women working in documentary film.
Chris Hegedus
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If I weren't making documentary films, I suppose I'd be teaching.
Brian Lindstrom