#documentaries

I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries. ↗

— Richard Donner

#commercials #documentaries #doing #drive #driving

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty. ↗

— Betty Dodson

#dealing #documentaries #ends #floor #honesty

Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#boom #documentaries #film #film world #films

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

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

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 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

So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them. ↗

— Michael Apted

#i #i can #i do #move #out