#documentaries

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as discreet as possible, and flexible enough to be able to capture the moment when it happens. I know from documentary how to not have a preconceived idea of what the scene could be. ↗

— Michel Gondry

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My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

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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

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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

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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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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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