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• When the American documentary filmmaker Donn Alan Pennebaker wanted to do a film on Dylan, Dylan asked him what he'd already done, and Pennebaker answered, Nothing except shots in the street. Dylan asked to see them, and he agreed to let him do the film.

  Raymond Depardon

  Done, Film, Shots

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• I always remember what Bob Dylan said in that [Martin] Scorsese documentary on him. When he was asked about Joan Baez's complaints about the way he treated her when they were together, Dylan laughed and said, "It's impossible to be in love and wise at the same time."

  Richard Gere

  Wise, Together, Bob

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• I think there have been so many documentaries about pop stars, made by pop stars. It's a new phenomenon. People making these movies where they praise themselves and show their own weaknesses. it's all designed to make you love them even more.

  Judd Apatow

  Stars, Thinking, People

  "Judd Apatow Talks ‘Popstar’, Letting The Lonely Island Do Their Thing, and More". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. June 4, 2016.

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• I'm so proud of Jason's [Benjamin] work. I can say this and he can't, but there's no group of documentary subjects more devoted to their documentarian. The vibes are really positive, and I feel so lucky.

  Lena Dunham

  Groups, Jason, Lucky

  "Lena Dunham talks Suited: Fashion is a new way into [the LGBTQ] conversation". Interview with Dana Getz, www.ew.com. June 20, 2016.

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• 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.

  Robert Greene

  Inspired, Moments, Filmmaker

  "Performance as Documentary: An Interview with Robert Greene (Web Exclusive)". Interview with Erik Luers, www.cineaste.com.

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• One of the things I've been talking about with my critical writing and my own work is that these movies are seen differently in a theatrical space. It's very important to me. I edit films to be seen theatrically, like fiction material I've worked on like Listen Up Phillip or other documentaries.

  Robert Greene

  Writing, Talking, Space

  "Performance as Documentary: An Interview with Robert Greene (Web Exclusive)". Interview with Erik Luers, www.cineaste.com.

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• Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the timing and the sense of the piece for the theatrical experience.

  Robert Greene

  Editing, Talking, Pieces

  "Performance as Documentary: An Interview with Robert Greene (Web Exclusive)". Interview with Erik Luers, www.cineaste.com.

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• Recently, while I was in England, I saw a documentary on the BBC about the border between India and Pakistan at Wagah. When the border closes each evening around six o' clock, the soldiers on each side do these amazing high-stepping peacock march-offs (like a dance-off). The displays are almost identical on each side and thousands gather to watch them. Though they're patrolling along their separate borders, what comes across is how similar they are.

  Matthea Harvey

  India And Pakistan, Soldier, Borders

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• You could make a feature about the world of tickling. You could include female ticklers and you could find out why people are ticklish, but I don't think it would be a great documentary, when you're spending 90 minutes just finding out about the physiology and psychology of tickling.

  David Farrier

  Thinking, People, Psychology

  "He made a movie about competitive tickling. But then things got truly weird". Interview with Michael O'Sullivan, www.washingtonpost.com. July 2, 2016.

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• Reality TV has ruined people's ability to watch documentary.

  David Farrier

  Reality, People, Watches

  "He made a movie about competitive tickling. But then things got truly weird". Interview with Michael O'Sullivan, www.washingtonpost.com. July 2, 2016.

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• At the beginning of my career, I shot a lot more documentaries because I liked the adventure, and probably also because it was easier, and still is easier, for women DPs to shoot documentary than it is to shoot fiction.

  Maryse Alberti

  Adventure, Careers, Fiction

  "The Female Cinematographers of Neon Demon, Creed, and Dope Discuss Their Experiences in a Male-Dominated Field". Interview with Kevin Lincoln, www.vulture.com. June 27, 2016.

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• I have a 22-year-old son, and when my son was born I made a decision to raise him. My husband and I took turns working, and it's easier to raise a kid in the documentary world, where you go away for two weeks or three weeks rather than the months that you spend on a feature. That was and still is much more open to women DPs than the world of fiction.

  Maryse Alberti

  Husband, Kids, Son

  "The Female Cinematographers of Neon Demon, Creed, and Dope Discuss Their Experiences in a Male-Dominated Field". Interview with Kevin Lincoln, www.vulture.com. June 27, 2016.

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• Research states that we have a two-week window to act after being inspired by an experience, before the brain is compelled to move on. I have always thought that while some documentaries I have seen have educated me, they have failed to engage and drive me to act in support of the message.

  Sam Branson

  Moving, Two, Support

  "Breaking the Taboo" by Sam Branson, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Even the best documentaries reach tens of thousands in their cinematic window. I believe that by launching online, we could potentially reach millions.

  Sam Branson

  Believe, Window, Online

  "Breaking the Taboo" by Sam Branson, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I love to travel, which is sort of why I do documentaries and why I'm in this whole world of movies - you get to meet amazing people and see how other people live. It opens your eyes. That's what I love.

  Fisher Stevens

  Eye, People, World

  "Fisher Stevens and Stand Up Guys". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Immigration is not an issue that I read about in the newspaper or watch a documentary on PBS or CNN. It's an issues I've lived around my whole life. My family are immigrants. My wife's family are immigrants. All of my neighbors are immigrants.

  Marco Rubio

  Pbs, Issues, Cnn

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you're focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don't have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited. My way was to work, make my short... make my documentary... make my small films... use my own money... raise money myself... and stay shooting and focused on each project.

  Ava DuVernay

  Glasses, Ceilings, Use

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. December 22, 2014.

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

  Laura Prepon

  Ideas, People, Prison

  "Q&A: Laura Prepon on Orange Is the New Black, Lesbianism, Tasteful Nudity & Prison". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. July 10, 2013.

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• I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is an important issue.

  Haskell Wexler

  Attitude, Thinking, Issues

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• There's nothing attractive about doing a documentary. Nothing. It's hard, hard work, and I find having all the attention of the day on me a very unattractive proposition.

  Elaine Stritch

  Hard Work, Attention, Unattractive

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• I make films about people with disabilities as well and I think this question is more relevant in regards to these documentaries where the actual person appears on film. I know these people are proud of who they are and what they are doing with their lives.

  Arthur Bradford

  Thinking, People, Proud

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or a few videos on Youtube, and you're good.

  David Oyelowo

  Focus, Watches, Video

  Source: aalbc.com

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• If I weren't making documentary films, I suppose I'd be teaching.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Teaching, Documentary Films, Ifs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In documentary you sometimes see the tyranny of the linear, but what I've noticed in the last ten years in narrative film is the tyranny of the non-linear.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Years, Narrative, Lasts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Thinking, Linear, Hard

  Source: therumpus.net

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