Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.

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

Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

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.

The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.