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The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.
You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens.
Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.
I've made many documentaries, but prostitution was the hardest in terms of gaining the trust of the people being filmed.
There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.
When you come to documentaries, the stakes are too low for it to be cutthroat. You're all doing it for the right reasons.
I played a doctor on 'Counterpart', so that was about studying and watching documentaries and reading and trying to learn.
There's a wide range today of documentaries on politics. The central mass of it is made by networks, and nothing's changed.
Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure.
In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role.
I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.
I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.
I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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.
The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.
I feel like a lot of funders of documentaries today want to fund films that have a social message that is going to yield results.
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.
I don't tend to watch TV. I'm like a Netflix junkie. I watch a lot of documentaries and movies on Netflix. I like 'Downton Abbey.'
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.
Seminars, TV shows, documentaries, always spreading Brazilian jiu-jitsu. I'm an instrument of this art more than a character myself.
For a while I had a little company and made corporate videos, did some little documentaries, almost, for court cases and mediations.
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.
I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures.
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.
2018 has been such a fantastic year for me: working on some hard-hitting documentaries, as well as 'Strictly,' has been a real treat.
Like many environmental documentaries, 'Planet of Humans' endorses debunked Malthusian ideas that the world is running out of energy.
I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.
It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.
Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.
As an actor, your text is your bible, so you're not making a documentary, but you still have to follow the choices made by your writer.
Okay, 'Best Party Ever' -- to me, that's like saying 'Best Gym Ever' or 'Best Nature Documentary Ever,' like how good can it really be?
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.
I don't think there's so much difference between making documentaries and feature films. I think it's even harder to make documentaries.
Because in this business, as you know, you don't get that many bites at the apple, so I make documentaries for HBO and that's what I do.
With documentaries, what's beautiful about them is that you capture something unique in a shot, something that will never repeat itself.
On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.
'30 for 30s' are amazing. They're little documentaries and can be anywhere from half an hour to an hour-and-a-half - great sports stories.
I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the 'CBS Evening News.' You could see that the audiences were eroding.
The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.
I don't really watch too many movies, but I try to watch inspirational pieces about other musicians. Musical documentaries truly inspire me.
An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.
I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.
My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations.
Whenever I'm making a feature film, I wish I were filming a documentary, because making feature films is so stressful. It happens every time.
A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.
It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a documentary moment.
Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.