All I`ve ever wanted to do is take stills of people, or take documentaries about people, and try to express to an audience how somebody lives next door. You know what I mean? Just how similar we all are as individuals.
Roger Deakins
As a director, my goal is to be completely open. Just look at how I portray sex in my films. They`re considered shocking and obscene because I like to carefully examine human sexuality. It has to be realistic. I really like documentaries, therefore, reali...
Paul Verhoeven
(On his role in The Last King of Scotland (2006)) "I did a massive amount to prepare for this. First of all I started learning Swahili, learning the accent, then I had to do study all the recording as well as all the books, tapes, documentaries. When I we...
Forest Whitaker
Over the last year I`ve rather enjoyed making documentaries for a company called Associated Television, run by a man called David Mackenzie. And we shot a couple in Russia, one in Moscow and one in St. Petersburg ... they are called `The KGB Files`. (1998...
Roger Moore
People want to see documentaries, but there`s a disconnect between that desire and the exhibitors out there. We`re not asking for charity. This could be on the 15th screen of a multiplex that would otherwise have the sixth showing of the new Harry Potter ...
Michael Moore
Well, I`ve been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.
Daniel Berrigan
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
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
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
I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.
Richard Donner
I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don`t just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.
Leonard Maltin
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
I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin`s movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.
Lasse Hallstrom
Documentaries have tremendous power to reveal truth and can have profound effects on societies and lives, ... It will be a pleasure to introduce these projects to local and international audiences through EIDF 2005.
Paul Kim