65 Quotes About Documentaries

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.

Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.

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.

I'm not a fan of the Eagles, but I've watched their documentary numerous times and everyone who's watched it with me has sung along to the songs, much to my dismay.

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.

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

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.

And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.