#document

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

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Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise. ↗

— Stephen Hopkins

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I hate making TV documentaries. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

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The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses. ↗

— Diane Wood

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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter. ↗

— Julian Assange

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The Declaration is a magnificent document. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

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My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

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