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I think you could very much make a 'Vanity Fair' in 2018, and I think it would probably look like a documentary.
Tom Bateman
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Vanity Fair
Documentary
Fair
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The thing about documentary is that you don't really choose your subjects: they come and grab you out of your bed.
Beeban Kidron
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Film Director
Subjects
Documentary
Grab
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I'm a documentary filmmaker, I know what it means to craft a story, especially when you've shot a lot of material.
Max Joseph
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Craft
Documentary
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I love Humphrey Jennings. People ask me who my favorite documentary maker is, and he's certainly in the top three.
Kevin Macdonald
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Love Me People
Maker
Documentary
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As a documentary filmmaker, I couldn't afford to give my children the lifestyle I had in San Francisco growing up.
Alexandra C. Pelosi
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Lifestyle
San Francisco
Documentary
Francisco
San
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With a documentary, you can cut away, you can do jump cuts, cut to a photograph at any point to bridge two scenes.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Photograph
Bridge
Cuts
Documentary
Jump
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I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.
Gus Van Sant
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Film Director
Animal
Arranging
Drama
Ideas
Different Animal
Documentary
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I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.
Arnon Goldfinger
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Film Director
Balance
Believe
Courses
Fiction
Take Care
Work Believe I Believe
Balances
Documentary
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The first thing that I ever made was a documentary that I shot... in downtown L.A. about a group of homeless people.
Pamela Adlon
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Actress
Downtown
Homeless
Documentary
First Thing
The First Thing
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As a kid, I watched every Madonna documentary and tour. I was obsessed with her - and with any pop star of the '80s.
Kim Petras
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Watched
Documentary
Madonna
Pop Star
Tour
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The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.
Catherine Opie
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Artist
Documentaries
Ideas
Photographer
Contain
Documentary
Participate
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Making a documentary about my hometown was always going to be the most difficult topic I had ever covered! No question.
Stacey Dooley
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Covered
Hometown
Documentary
No Question
Topic
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I've often thought even ragtag gatherings of documentary filmmakers are more fun than gatherings of fiction filmmakers.
Marshall Curry
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Filmmaker
Fun More Than
Documentary
Gatherings
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I always wanted to be in movies, but I never thought that in a million years there would be a documentary about my life.
Gigi Gorgeous
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Life Movies My Life
Life Movies Always
Documentary
Million Years
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The documentary genre, shows like 'Making a Murderer' and 'The Jinx' on HBO, there's been a whole raft of long-form docs.
Louis Theroux
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Television Personality
Genre
Hbo
Documentary
Raft
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The great thing about 'The Exorcist' is it's dead serious horror. No comedy, no self-reference, it's a documentary style.
Leigh Whannell
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Screenwriter
Exorcist
Documentary
Great Thing
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People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.
Mark Zupan
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Film Actor
Sports
Athens
Crew
Familiar
Film
People
Documentary
Wheelchair
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Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
R. J. Cutler
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Filmmaker
Muscles
Narrative
Developed
Documentary
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'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
Jack Horner
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Paleontologist
Accurate
Jurassic Park
Documentary
Jurassic
Park
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There is a porous membrane between a documentary that doesn't use interviews and what you would call a neorealist hybrid film.
Debra Granik
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Film Director
Documentary
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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
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Lines
District
Documentary
Mix
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'America 24/7' will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age.
Rick Smolan
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Digital
Documentary
Event
Landmark
Watershed
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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.
Errol Morris
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Film Director
Block
Decades
Documentary
Good Reason
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In documentary, mostly, people are going to say untoward things; people are going to have gnarly beliefs. People aren't perfect.
Debra Granik
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Film Director
Gnarly
Beliefs
Documentary
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A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand.
Chloe Zhao
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Poetry
Truth
Fiction
Go
Bring
Documentary
Hand
Help
Story
Tell
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The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject.
Ben Edwards
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Appeal
Documentary
Plays
Relates
Subject
Understands
Viewer
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I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.
Gillian Armstrong
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Credibility
Filmmaker
Documentary
Hip
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A stand-up comedian who's assaultive and decent and has managed a career that has spanned over five decades deserves a documentary.
Elvis Mitchell
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Film Critic
Comedian
Decades
Decent
Documentary
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My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
Yahoo Serious
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Film Actor
Art
Art School
School
Stupid
Stupidity
Threatening
Thrilling
Acts
Background
Documentary
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There's something about the lack of certainty with a documentary, which is exhausting if you do three in a row. It's nerve-wracking.
Kevin Macdonald
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Certainty
Exhausting
Documentary
Row
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If a documentary crew were to follow me around, they'd probably think they were making a film about the saddest person in the world.
Hannah Gadsby
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Crew
Saddest
World Me Person
Documentary
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My dad had made a documentary called 'The Dream Factory' about MGM, and my whole life, I just wanted to be inside it. And there I was.
Marti Noxon
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Television Writer
Mgm
Documentary
Factory
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I'll read a book. I'll watch a documentary or a film or whatever. I'll go to an art exhibit and just try and open myself to influence.
Black Thought
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Mc
Documentary
Exhibit
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In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day.
Tom Brokaw
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Journalist
Anniversary
France
Nbc
Spring
Documentary
Northwest
Prepare
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I am obsessed with John Mayer. I love him. I just think he's so talented. I have his documentary in my iTunes. I watch it all the time.
Hailey Baldwin
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Itunes
Mayer
Love Time I Am
Talented
Documentary
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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
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Filmmaker
Documentaries
Fiction
Point Of View
Views
Compete
Documentary
Enter
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On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.
Mindy Kaling
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Actress
Romantic
Documentaries
Feelings
Mock
Office
Documentary
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I, for one, personally like rom-coms, silly rom-coms, but at the same time, I also want to watch a documentary or an award-winning drama.
Kalki Koechlin
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Film Actress
Silly
Documentary
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Raman Raghav' was shot on location, but there are many stylistic things in it. I like this mixture of documentary and extreme stylization.
Sriram Raghavan
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Location
Extreme
Documentary
Stylistic
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I'm still hesitant to call myself a journalist. I see myself as a documentary maker who is trusted with hard-hitting current affairs issues.
Stacey Dooley
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Hesitant
Journalist
Trusted
Affairs
Current
Maker
Documentary
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I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up documentary journalism.
Jamie Johnson
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Cases
Journalism
Documentary
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When I'm not singing, I'm a lot of persons: I'm a producer. I'm a badminton player. I'm a writer. I'm a movie freak. I'm a documentary maker.
Arijit Singh
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Movie
Badminton
Freak
Persons
Player
Singing
Writer
Maker
Documentary
Producer
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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.
Julia Roberts
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Actress
Clothes
Documentaries
Film
Act
Documentary
Films
Performance
Personally
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A buddy of mine is doing a documentary on decisions, and they're not based on a ton of logic. It's mostly how you relate to them emotionally.
Thomas Jane
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Actor
Buddy
Logic
Relate
Documentary
Emotionally
Ton
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If a film is entertaining, it will work irrespective of anything. It should be entertaining and engaging; otherwise, it becomes a documentary.
Ayushmann Khurrana
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Engaging
Entertaining
Work Will Anything
Documentary
Irrespective
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I eat raw vegetables. But my 30 for 30 documentary better include sit-down interviews with Ronald McDonald, Colonel Sanders and Little Debbie.
Jason Whitlock
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Sportswriter
Vegetables
Colonel
Documentary
Include
Mcdonald
Raw
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My first job in the film business was working as a production assistant, and then a production manager on a documentary about Townes Van Zandt.
Jeff Nichols
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Assistant
Documentary
Film Business
Manager
Van
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I don't have a horror film in me just because I don't like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary in me, and I certainly have dramas.
Todd Phillips
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Film Director
Documentaries
Drama
Horror Film
Scared
Documentary
Dramas
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I watched the Sandra Bland documentary and her tape itself over and over and over and over again, and just the reality of that, the fear in that.
Jodie Turner-Smith
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Bland
Tape
Documentary
Sandra
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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
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Actor
Documentaries
Journalist
Needs
Privilege
Protection
Thinking
Documentary
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