A Quote by Tim Hetherington

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

Tim Hetherington

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Tim Hetherington
British - Journalist
December 5, 1970 - April 20, 2011

Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.

Gael Garcia Bernal

We never see any journalism or documentaries on the oceans and what we're doing on this Earth and how it affects the oceans and how important they are. I'm intrigued by it. It's almost an untold story.

Ed Schultz

The alternative to the corporate media is a renaissance of citizen journalism emerging around world - exploring the different avenues that do exist, like podcasts, to tell whatever story you want to tell.

Abby Martin

I started in documentaries, and that was a great help to me with improvisation, because with documentaries, you're handed a big lump of footage, and you have to shape it and make it into a story - which I love doing.

Thelma Schoonmaker

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

Michael Moore

Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.

Alex Gibney

I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.

Kevin Macdonald

Too many documentaries are intellectual exercises. I want documentaries to be alive.

Davis Guggenheim

Good journalism is crucial. Good journalism isn't easy so I think it's less about what story and more about the layers and context that need to be explored in the story. That's one of the reasons why I'm excited to be a part of CNN. This is the kind of place that you can do that.

George Stroumboulopoulos

The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.

Wendell Berry

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

Dick Schaap

The luxury that I have is I'm not career-minded, I just live from one film to the next. For a time, I was making documentaries, and all my documentaries were winning awards and stuff, and then I lost interest in documentaries.

Pawel Pawlikowski

If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to change the construct.

Ali Smith

I'm not one of those people who sees documentaries as a stepping stone to doing fiction. I love documentaries and watch tons of documentaries. But, I like fiction films a lot, too.

Marshall Curry

What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.

Clifford Geertz

You're creating a score that has to have an emotional and story logic to it. You want a dramatic arc. You want all the songs to push story forward. That's the same whether it's for stage or film or television or whatever.

Alan Menken

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