#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

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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

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

— Walter Salles

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

— Walter Salles

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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

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

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

#battle #brutality #deprivation #documentaries #endurance

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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