Quotes of: Documentary-film Keyword

Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.

Nicholas Jarecki

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

James Marsh

Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening.

Brian De Palma

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

Frank Marshall

I feel like we're going to see a lot more movies that mix documentary style with fiction, more along the lines of 'District 9.'

Josh Trank

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

Abhishek Bachchan

I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a narrative in the editing room.

Mira Nair

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

Michael Rapaport

I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.

Dick Van Dyke

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.

Howard Shore

I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.

Tatjana Patitz

I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries.

Martin Parr

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.

Sara Harrison

If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'

Idris Elba

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.

Richard Donner

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.

Richard Donner

Whenever I watch a documentary about the space, I find the news in the world very funny and dull!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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?

Robert Redford

I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.

Simon Beaufoy

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.

Jonathan Demme

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.

Heather Brooke