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• Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

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  Tags in Documentary, Fiction

• The worst thing that can happen to a comedian is to do a documentary on your life and you’re watching it with an audience and there’s not a laugh.

  David Steinberg

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  Tags in Documentary, Worst

• 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.

  Garth Stein

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  Tags in Storytelling, Documentary

• You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.

  William Shatner

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  Tags in Documentary, Process

• Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the ’80s.

  Gus Green Van Sant Jr.

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  Tags in Documentary, Well

• I’ve always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality – which is not really… I don’t even know if documentary itself does as good a job. It has its own problems in trying to get at the reality of the situation.

  Gus Green Van Sant Jr.

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  Tags in Documentary, Relates

• I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you’re arranging everything.

  Gus Green Van Sant Jr.

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  Tags in Documentary, Arranging

• I’m always reaching for something we really haven’t done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to it and first-person camera view that is a new thing for me. I’ve done some stuff like that before, but nothing like the extent of this and digitally.

  Dennis Muren

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  Tags in Documentary

• Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

  Bruce Jackson

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• This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director.

  Ben Edwards

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  Tags in Documentary

• I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

  Beau Bridges

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  Tags in Documentary

• We’ll be back to our nature documentary, ‘Baggy the Anorexic Elephant’ in just a second.

  Colin Mochrie

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  Tags in Documentary

• Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

  Gene Siskel

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  Tags in Actors, Documentary

• My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Director, Thrilling, Documentary, Stupidity, Act

• I directed 24’s pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn’t always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise.

  Stephen Hopkins

  Tags in Documentary, Premise, Screens

• In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Topics in God

  Tags in Director, Documentary