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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.

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.

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.

I have tried reading the Bible but that's a tough read there. I watch a lot of religious documentaries. I have a keen interest in religion for someone who's not religious.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.

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

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.

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.

Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date.

I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.

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

Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.

I wasn't really that informed about the two-year-old. Oh, I'd read about them, and occasionally I'd see documentaries on the Discovery Channel showing two-year-olds in the wild, where they belong.

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that you should do documentaries.

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

News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.

Fear is not a word in my football documentary.

People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.

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.

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.

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

You made a point about proof. In this sort of history we do nt have proof... Yet... the incontrovertibility of the evidence can be plain even when it is not documentary or complete.

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

I want to do a documentary about strippers, 'cause it's a moneymaker.

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

There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling.

When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum in the 1950s, shooting film.

An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.

People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.

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

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.

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

My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.

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

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened.

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

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.

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

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

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.

Documentaries are a form of journalism.