A Quote by Michael Moore

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

Michael Moore

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Documentary Documentary Film Filmmaker Very Well

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Michael Moore
American - Activist
Born: April 23, 1954

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

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

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

Dana Spiotta

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

Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date.

Cilla Black

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

Keith Maitland

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

Anna Deavere Smith

As a documentary filmmaker, I'm very respectful, and my interview style is not intrusive. I don't really have an agenda. I just go in there, I mumble something or other, I wait for them to speak, and I wait for them to stop.

Tony Kaye

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

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

Alexandra C. Pelosi

There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. And that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. They're not written, not rehearsed. It's spontaneous, extemporaneous material. People

Errol Morris

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