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As a documentary filmmaker, I try to be sensitive to my subjects.

Keith Maitland

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Keith Maitland
American - Actor

If you're a great documentary filmmaker, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're a great narrative filmmaker. There are fantastic documentary filmmakers that can't direct actors. You don't have to do that in a documentary, if it's a real documentary.

Alexander Skarsgard

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.

Errol Morris

I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I had trouble finishing things.

Errol Morris

You kind of form a bond with your subjects, in a way. You're in it together. To a degree that people don't realize, documentary films - or at least the kind of documentary films I'm interested in - are a collaborative undertaking with the subjects.

Steve James

Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.

R. J. Cutler

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

Since I come from documentary background and my father is a documentary filmmaker, for me the core essence of cinema is it's social statement. It is somewhat similar to the work of a journalist, just on a different level. This is the kind of cinema I enjoy.

Ivan Tverdovsky

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

Michael Moore

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

Anna Deavere Smith

The great documentary subjects find you, you don't really search for them.

Jeremy Coon

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

Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.

Dana Spiotta

As a documentary filmmaker, I couldn't afford to give my children the lifestyle I had in San Francisco growing up.

Alexandra C. Pelosi

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations.

Jamie Wyeth

I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.

Joan Fontcuberta

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

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