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• The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

  Rainn Wilson

  Being Single, Office, Style

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 19, 2008.

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• To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Art, Mean

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• I hate making TV documentaries.

  Jamie Oliver

  Hate, Tvs, I Hate

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Watches, Information, Film

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• I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, Needs, Privilege

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• Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.

  Jonathan Demme

  Mean, Fiction, Littles

  "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.

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• I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don't think I could do it like I used to do it.

  Ryan McGinley

  Nice, Thinking, Interesting

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• Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. That bloke next door? Made of pixels. Your co-workers? Pixels. You? One pixel. One measly pixel. You haven't even got shoes, for Christ's sake.

  Charlie Brooker

  Real, Doors, Shoes

  "The very fabric of society is breaking down around us. What the hell is there left to believe in?" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2009.

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• I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Thinking, Whole Life, Whole

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• I'm Min's fairy godmother, Charm Boy,' Liza said, frowning down at him. 'And if you don't give her a happily ever after, I'm going to come back and beat you to death with a snow globe.' What happened to "bibbity bobbity boo"?' Cal asked Min. That was Disney, honey,' Min said. 'It wasn't a documentary.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Boys, Snow, Giving

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Bet Me”, p.384, Macmillan

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• Great," Shane said. "Look i'd rather not be on janitorial duty. I have allergies to cleaners." "And to cleaning," Michael said. "Look who's talking, Didn't the do one of those Animal Planet documentaries about the roaches in your room?

  Rachel Caine

  Animal, Talking, Allergies

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn: The Morganville Vampires”, p.85, Penguin

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• But if anyone so much as threatened them because of what Kaia had once done, she would turn the Slumber Party Massacre into Blood, Bath and Beyond, a documentary by Kaia Skyhawk.

  Gena Showalter

  Party, Blood, Done

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.55, HQN Books

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• So you're Zach." Townsend didn't even try to hide the judgement in his voice as he looked Zach up and down in some sort of silent but dangerous examination. Zach huffed but smiled. "so you're Townsend." The two of them stared for a long time, wordless. It felt like I was watching a documentary on the Nature Channel, something about alpha males in the wild.

  Ally Carter

  Two, Voice, Long

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• Okay, 'Best Party Ever' -- to me, that's like saying 'Best Gym Ever' or 'Best Nature Documentary Ever,' like how good can it really be?

  Lena Dunham

  Party, Okay, Best Nature

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• I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Believe, Communication

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• Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in

  Darren Aronofsky

  Fit, Natural, Fountain

  Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. October 9, 2008.

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• 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

  Mean, Doors, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Two remarkable men -- one young, one old -- fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On.

  Leonard Maltin

  Beautiful, Men, Two

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• Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Opinion, Beavers, Contrary

  Stephanie Coontz (2016). “The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap”, p.35, Basic Books

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• Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt to allow the perpetrators to reenact what they did, and then something truly amazing happens. The dream dissolves into nightmare and then into bitter reality. An amazing and impressive film.

  Errol Morris

  Dream, Reality, Demand

  "Documentary ‘The Act of Killing’ Premieres at Telluride, Screens at Toronto" by Anne Thompson and Maggie Lange, www.indiewire.com. August 31, 2012.

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• I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as an agent of Iraq. The FBI has also opened up an investigation into my wife calling her a KGB spy.

  Scott Ritter

  Iraq, Israel, Kgb

  "Exclusive: Scott Ritter in His Own Words". Interview with Massimo Calabresi, content.time.com. September 14, 2002.

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• They kept asking me over and over again whether I was having a romance with Hitler. Are you Hitler's girlfriend? I laughed and answered the same way each time: No, those are false rumours. I only made documentaries for him.

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Girlfriend, Romance, Asking

  Leni Riefenstahl (1992). “The sieve of time: the memoirs of Leni Riefenstahl”

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• 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.

  Robert Conquest

  Proof, Made, Evidence

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• I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Heart, Soul, Photographer

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• The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.

  Clive James

  Vegas, People, Classic

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