#documentaries

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#actually #being #documentaries #documentary #dramas

I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled. ↗

— Tatjana Patitz

#documentaries #fulfilled #haven #i #i can

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up. ↗

— Michael Rapaport

#documentaries #hip-hop #i #lined #now

When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#documentaries #film #i #make #never

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films. ↗

— Walter Salles

#did #documentaries #fiction #films #i

No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil. ↗

— Walter Salles

#documentaries #doing #european #i #lot

That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think. ↗

— Walter Salles

#always #because #better #come #documentaries

I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but it's difficult to find backing for them. ↗

— Marc Singer

#backing #difficult #director #documentaries #experience

I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#biggest #biggest influence #camera #chaplin #charlie

One of the common themes you will read in interview after interview is the call to keep fighting for your vision. This is a message to women directors, producers, writers—anyone who wants to work in the business. Your voice counts. Your vision matters. ↗

— Melissa Silverstein

#director #directors #documentaries #feminism #film