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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.
I'm strictly a movie person. I mean, I watch the HBO documentaries and Netflix.
I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).
Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries.
I love those documentaries where everyone is fabulous and always perfect.
I've always been weirdly interested in food documentaries.
I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.
I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.
I have always felt that documentaries are an opportunity for me to witness a world that I know nothing about.
I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.
We do documentaries on the history of cinema in between our feature films.
My time in documentaries was very educating, in terms of life experience as well as the filmmaking side of it.
Documentaries require an enormous amount of grit and empathy - and that is something women are incredibly strong at.
I love every single genre from documentaries, horror, comedy, drama, '80s, classic, I have it all.
Sound is the most important thing on any film, especially documentaries.
I played a doctor on 'Counterpart', so that was about studying and watching documentaries and reading and trying to learn.
I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.
With Netflix, I browse; I watch documentaries about things I'd never dream of, but I think, 'I might as well.'
My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
I know it might be kind of ironic, but I like funny films and documentaries.
I was no stranger to risk myself, having made documentaries in dangerous conditions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Africa.
You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.
I came from a background of directing behind-the-scenes documentaries.
No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
I love documentaries, I like observing real people.
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 watch documentaries and travel the world and see all sorts of life.
If you're not doing it for the right reasons, then you'd be dumb to be making documentaries.
Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.
Documentary films have always been my passion, I have done documentaries.
Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me.
Music documentaries are tricky because of 'Spinal Tap.' That movie has stood the test of time.
Every year, I'm depressed that so few of the documentaries I've loved break through.
There's a lot of documentaries out in the world; it sometimes seems as if there's no topic left!
I've made many documentaries, but prostitution was the hardest in terms of gaining the trust of the people being filmed.
I'm primarily an actor and only make documentaries when I see a story others have missed.
I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
I always thought of documentaries as films through which you find your voice as a narrator.
Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.
When making documentaries, the most important thing I learned was to listen, observe gestures and facial expressions.
It was through watching documentaries on the BBC in the late 1980s that I first became interested in art and history.
With documentaries, you go in with an open-mind but knowing what you want.
I love going on BBC6 and BBC7 and listening to documentaries.
I love documentaries. My problem is when the filmmaker becomes the star.
There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling.
I make documentaries. I attend film festivals. I don't have time to sit at cafes taking selfies.
Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure.
I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.
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.
The thing that's made me open my eyes to what was happening to the environment and climate was films and documentaries.
People still come to Baltimore and say, "I didn't realize you made documentaries."
You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
I only ever wanted to do history, and make documentaries.
Brilliant documentaries are about so much more than their subject.
Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.
People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.
I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.
