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• I have a 22-year-old son, and when my son was born I made a decision to raise him. My husband and I took turns working, and it's easier to raise a kid in the documentary world, where you go away for two weeks or three weeks rather than the months that you spend on a feature. That was and still is much more open to women DPs than the world of fiction.

  Maryse Alberti

  Husband, Kids, Son

  "The Female Cinematographers of Neon Demon, Creed, and Dope Discuss Their Experiences in a Male-Dominated Field". Interview with Kevin Lincoln, www.vulture.com. June 27, 2016.

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• At the beginning of my career, I shot a lot more documentaries because I liked the adventure, and probably also because it was easier, and still is easier, for women DPs to shoot documentary than it is to shoot fiction.

  Maryse Alberti

  Adventure, Careers, Fiction

  "The Female Cinematographers of Neon Demon, Creed, and Dope Discuss Their Experiences in a Male-Dominated Field". Interview with Kevin Lincoln, www.vulture.com. June 27, 2016.

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• Do I believe the execution will work out? Les Moonves said yes to Survivor based partly upon my show Eco-Challenge. He liked my way of filming outdoors. It was the first use of helicopters on a documentary with the gyro-stabilized lenses. And a certain beauty of filming, allowing the drops to fall from a leaf into a puddle, allowing a spider to weave a web. Taking the breath to allow that to happen rather than showing scene after scene.

  Scott Raab

  Believe, Fall, Work Out

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I always remember what Bob Dylan said in that [Martin] Scorsese documentary on him. When he was asked about Joan Baez's complaints about the way he treated her when they were together, Dylan laughed and said, "It's impossible to be in love and wise at the same time."

  Richard Gere

  Wise, Together, Bob

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• I think there have been so many documentaries about pop stars, made by pop stars. It's a new phenomenon. People making these movies where they praise themselves and show their own weaknesses. it's all designed to make you love them even more.

  Judd Apatow

  Stars, Thinking, People

  "Judd Apatow Talks ‘Popstar’, Letting The Lonely Island Do Their Thing, and More". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. June 4, 2016.

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• I'm so proud of Jason's [Benjamin] work. I can say this and he can't, but there's no group of documentary subjects more devoted to their documentarian. The vibes are really positive, and I feel so lucky.

  Lena Dunham

  Groups, Jason, Lucky

  "Lena Dunham talks Suited: Fashion is a new way into [the LGBTQ] conversation". Interview with Dana Getz, www.ew.com. June 20, 2016.

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• It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a documentary moment.

  Robert Greene

  Inspired, Moments, Filmmaker

  "Performance as Documentary: An Interview with Robert Greene (Web Exclusive)". Interview with Erik Luers, www.cineaste.com.

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• One of the things I've been talking about with my critical writing and my own work is that these movies are seen differently in a theatrical space. It's very important to me. I edit films to be seen theatrically, like fiction material I've worked on like Listen Up Phillip or other documentaries.

  Robert Greene

  Writing, Talking, Space

  "Performance as Documentary: An Interview with Robert Greene (Web Exclusive)". Interview with Erik Luers, www.cineaste.com.

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• Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the timing and the sense of the piece for the theatrical experience.

  Robert Greene

  Editing, Talking, Pieces

  "Performance as Documentary: An Interview with Robert Greene (Web Exclusive)". Interview with Erik Luers, www.cineaste.com.

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• Recently, while I was in England, I saw a documentary on the BBC about the border between India and Pakistan at Wagah. When the border closes each evening around six o' clock, the soldiers on each side do these amazing high-stepping peacock march-offs (like a dance-off). The displays are almost identical on each side and thousands gather to watch them. Though they're patrolling along their separate borders, what comes across is how similar they are.

  Matthea Harvey

  India And Pakistan, Soldier, Borders

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• You could make a feature about the world of tickling. You could include female ticklers and you could find out why people are ticklish, but I don't think it would be a great documentary, when you're spending 90 minutes just finding out about the physiology and psychology of tickling.

  David Farrier

  Thinking, People, Psychology

  "He made a movie about competitive tickling. But then things got truly weird". Interview with Michael O'Sullivan, www.washingtonpost.com. July 2, 2016.

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• Reality TV has ruined people's ability to watch documentary.

  David Farrier

  Reality, People, Watches

  "He made a movie about competitive tickling. But then things got truly weird". Interview with Michael O'Sullivan, www.washingtonpost.com. July 2, 2016.

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• Paradoxically, in the field being a woman actually helps you: people often feel more comfortable talking to women, which is key in documentaries.

  Cosima Spender

  Keys, Talking, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• While it is increasingly possible for filmmakers to find an audience on their own (something that is particularly popular amongst documentary filmmakers) I'm still a believer in the "specialist". By this I mean, I back myself as a filmmaker, but I leave the marketing and distribution of my films to the experts.

  Leanne Pooley

  Mean, Marketing, Experts

  "TIFF Women Directors: Meet Leanne Pooley". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. September 6, 2013.

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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

  Ambition, People, Different

  "The Crash Reel Director Lucy Walker on Snowboarding and Simone de Beauvoir". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 12, 2013.

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• I never uttered a word about things, but with my age now, I've completely lost all reservations. In more ways than one. I was never in front of the camera, for example, but now I've been in films and documentaries.

  Giovanna Cau

  Age, Way, Cameras

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Directors, Fiction, Film

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• I personally can watch an eight-hour documentary on Woody Allen because I'm fascinated by him. But, an audience can't really sit through more than two and a half hours on any movie. It doesn't matter if Marlon Brando came back from the dead. It's just impossible.

  Brett Ratner

  Two, Eight, Half

  Source: collider.com

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• My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations.

  Jamie Wyeth

  Thinking, Painting, Curious

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• I've been wanting to do a documentary on the true heart of the groupie ever since I was one. The groupie is just a girl who loves music and loves to be around the people who make it. She is the fan that takes it to the next level to experience the whole shebang.

  Pamela Des Barres

  Girl, Heart, People

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• Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through layers of manipulation, abstraction, and intervention. But now, it is very much on the surface. I like this honesty about its dishonesty. Every photograph has many truths and none. Photographs are ambiguous, no matter how seemingly scientific they appear to be. They are always subject to an uncontrollable context. This is a tired statement, but worth repeating.

  Taryn Simon

  Photography, Honesty, Tired

  Interview with Geoffrey Batchen, Nell McClister, www.museomagazine.com.

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• Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Rome, Cities, Two

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Educational, Film, Reason

  Rudolf Arnheim (1957). “Film as Art”, p.195, Univ of California Press

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• A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization.

  Max Weber

  Unique, Organization, Unity

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• I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life.

  Dave Grohl

  Real, Rocks, Looks

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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