Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Maslin

Bizarrely funny... Rarely is a documentary as well attuned to its subject as Howard Brookner's BURROUGHS, which captures as much about the life, work and sensibility of its subject as its 86 minute format allows.

Edward Norton

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

Jamie Bell

I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

Ed Cunningham

You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens.

Dennis Hopper

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

Catherine Opie

I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.

Don DeLillo

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

Anna Deavere Smith

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

Darren Aronofsky

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

Charles Stross

I don't do flash fiction.

Anita Diament

When I turned 40, I wanted to do something different. Fiction offered a different challenge. It uses a different side of the brain.

Tahmoh Penikett

I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.

Tom Bissell

My fiction-writing DNA shows in how I think about prose, how I think about the page, how I think nonfiction stories should work. And every piece of nonfiction I write, I want it to have fictional texture.

Laurie Levenson

The popularity of these programs has an impact. There is a blurring of fiction and reality.

Brent Spiner

I don't read fiction at all.

David Morrell

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.

David Mitchell

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

Chad Harbach

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

Tom Freston

We want to produce films here, we don't want to just distribute. We want to work with Indian producers.

Terrell Falk

When filmmakers make a movie, they make a movie for the large screen.

Agnes Obel

I love the conversation between film and music.

Agnes Varda

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

Peter Sarsgaard

When I finished filming and I flew back home to Australia, I really did not want to take that 14-hour flight.

Marshall Curry

When I'm making documentaries, I think a lot about how fiction films play. I want them to have the pacing, the twists and the character development of fiction films.

Adoor Gopalakrishnan

We used to watch some very good Hindi films made in those days.

Jaime Pressly

The process of doing films is not my favorite, but I love television. Television is a quicker turnaround. You shoot more during the day, which makes me feel more productive. It would be like, 'I did five scenes today and ten pages.' That's television.

Alden Ehrenreich

When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff like that. That's where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.