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• We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.

  Colin Mochrie

  Elephants, Anorexics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Principles, Way, Life Experience

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• Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Art, Style

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• Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.

  Gus Van Sant

  Style, Want, Wells

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 22, 2003.

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• In documentary we deal with the actual, and in one sense with the real. But the really real, if I may use that phrase, is something deeper than that. The only reality which counts in the end is the interpretation which is profound

  John Grierson

  Real, Profound, Phrases

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• We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

  Bradley Whitford

  Faith, Believe, Order

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• Documentary filmmaking has all the challenges and hardships of narrative filmmaking without any of the infrastructure or support. That's both a blessing and a curse.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Blessing, Support, Challenges

  Source: therumpus.net

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• With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself - 'This seems to be a significant problem. What can be done that hasn't been done?

  Paul Allen

  People, Asking, Done

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• Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.

  Allan Sekula

  Art, Self, Expression

  Allan Sekula, Illinois State University. University Galleries (1999). “Dismal science: photo works, 1972-1996”, Illinois State Univ

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• Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I think to myself, "Fiction can't compete with this." But when I mentioned this to a veteran manga artist friend of mine he said that "fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would otherwise have no salvation at all." His words strengthened the conviction of my manga spirit.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Character, Thinking, Artist

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• In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

  Garth Stein

  Found Objects, Stories, Elements

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• I have always felt that documentaries are an opportunity for me to witness a world that I know nothing about.

  Chris Hegedus

  Opportunity, World, Witness

  "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Chris Hegedus – ‘Unlocking the Cage’". www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2016.

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• I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

  Leslie Cockburn

  Thinking, Stories, Ability

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• 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

  Writing, Discovery, Stories

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• Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

  Norman Jewison

  Looks, Want, Film

  "Profile and Interview: Norman Jewison". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January 2004.

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• If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Reality, Fiction, Want

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• Depression is a real demon in the woods for a lot of creative people, you know? It's part of what the documentary is trying to be about for me, finding balance, where the beauty that is attainable in the creative arts can be matched with the scratchy roughness of regular life.

  Ethan Hawke

  Art, Real, People

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• Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Fiction, Kind, Film

  Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. January 31, 2006.

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• If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.

  Richard Donner

  Opportunity, Progress, World

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• You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.

  Dougray Scott

  Dry, Film, Like You

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• What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history.

  Joseph Conrad

  Strong, Pride, Reality

  Joseph Conrad “The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad”, Library of Alexandria

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• So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.

  Michael Apted

  Moving, I Can

  "Michael Apted Goes from “7 Up” to 007". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 1999.

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

  Don DeLillo

  Watches, Watch Movie

  "Q&A: Don DeLillo / It's not as easy as it looks / DeLillo talks about writing plays, watching sports and movies, and defining love and death". Interview with John Freeman, www.sfgate.com. March 5, 2006.

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• Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Intuition, Poetic

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• With documentaries, you go in with an open-mind but knowing what you want.

  Chris Metzler

  Knowing, Mind, Want

  "Norwood Fisher and director Chris Metzler discuss upcoming Fishbone documentary". Interview with Tom Santilli, www.axs.com. December 14, 2011.

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