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Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for projects that let me be the best filmmaker I can be, and to be stretched and grow further. Lucy Walker

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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I think most documentaries are too long. Marshall Curry

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When I'm making documentaries, I think a lot about how fiction films play. I want them to have the pacing, the twists and the character development of fiction films. Marshall Curry

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I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries. Martin Parr

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Sound is the most important thing on any film, especially documentaries. Matthew Heineman

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I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't know very much, trying to communicate. Michael Palin

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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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I was offered a jingle, and that led to another one, followed by composing music for documentaries. It got me in contact with other artistes on the scene. We would meet, jam up, and that's how Silk Route was formed. Mohit Chauhan

People are beginning to realize that it's important that we see animals in a natural state - but through film, through video, through documentaries, at wildlife preserves, and through other humanely protected ways, which don't involve... performing for us. Montel Williams

When you come to documentaries, the stakes are too low for it to be cutthroat. You're all doing it for the right reasons. Morgan Neville

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I love documentaries. I love the format. I've been doing them for a long time. Morgan Neville

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Non-fiction or documentaries can tell any kind of a story because they don't have to adhere to the rules of what's possible. When you're making something up, you have to say, 'Well, this is what would happen here,' but in reality, stuff happens that seems impossible. Morgan Neville

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I watch documentaries and travel the world and see all sorts of life. Mya

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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

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There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling. Owen Hart

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I'm a big watcher of sports, consumer of sports content, so I love documentaries; I love the format. Peter Billingsley

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I love these sort of documentaries, which you might turn on late on a Saturday night - like, say, 'The Alma Cogan Story.' But they are ripe for spoofing, because the presenters are always so serious and anxious to make themselves look like rather attractive and interesting people. Peter Capaldi

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Documentaries for me always felt kind of limiting. I wanted to go bigger. And I also love actors, and I love performance. So feature filmmaking was always the intent. Peter Landesman

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I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success. Raney Aronson-Rath

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We lived a lovely, middle-class, suburban life in Philadelphia. And I really thought that the TV programs of the '50s, like 'Father Knows Best' and 'The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet' Nelson were documentaries filmed with hidden cameras in our neighborhood. Richard Corliss

I think that, as a filmmaker, you're always making the same film, regardless of how many different stories you tell. This is the case for me, whether I'm making documentaries or fiction films. Rithy Panh

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