#documentaries

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

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

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

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

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do. ↗

— Michael Apted

#creating #documentaries #i #i do #more

I love documentaries, I like observing real people. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#i #i love #like #love #observing

I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at. ↗

— Frederick Wiseman

#because #century #confuse #documentaries #everybody

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#anything #back #documentaries #educate #entire

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#education #first #line #pacific #second

I've done several commercials and I've done voiceovers for documentaries. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#documentaries #done #i #several #voiceovers