#documentary

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#art #art school #background #director #documentary

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected. ↗

— William Shatner

#discovery #documentary #else #expected #finish

Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch? ↗

— Gene Siskel

#film #having #interesting #lunch #more

I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people. ↗

— Timothy Bottoms

#best #could #documentary #driven #footage

I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if documentary itself does as good a job. It has its own problems in trying to get at the reality of the situation. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#been #documentary #does #even #get

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. ↗

— Rod Serling

#both #dancing #difficult #documentary #every

Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#around #constructed #did #documentary #fit

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. ↗

— Edward Norton

#best #documentary #films #kind #narrative

When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#after #big #commissioned #documentary #england

The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time. ↗

— Dana Snyder

#events #happened #real #real time #time