I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but it's difficult to find backing for them.
I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.
I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason.
I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.
To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.
I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office.
I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries.
The work of WikiLeaks is with principal documentary evidence; that's where the truth lies. It gets to the heart of the matter. It educates people and in turn empowers them.
I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.
I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.
If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.
Whenever I watch a documentary about the space, I find the news in the world very funny and dull!
I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?
I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.
When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.
It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.
You can't hope for a better result as a campaigner than to have the prime minister announce a major policy change within 48 hours of your documentary.
Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.
My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on.
At home, I watch fights and documentaries - that's it. If it's not about the birth and death of stars, 'Frozen Planet,' or someone getting punched in the face, I'm probably not watching it.
