#documentaries

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

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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

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There's been a vacuum with movies that people can relate to. There's been a paucity of dramas that people can relate to. I think audiences are clamoring to connect - particularly after 9/11 - with things that are genuine and real and I think documentaries are filling that need. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

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

— Michael Apted

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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

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I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

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I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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

— Betty Dodson

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