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..
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 an….
I never uttered a word about things, but with my age now, I've completely lost all reservations. In more ways than one. I was never in front of the c….
A picture that is ghostly and silent can be more eloquent and less clichéd than a noisier photo-journalistic approach and I have attempted to make pi….
I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is..
In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role..
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 impo….
I love those documentaries where everyone is fabulous and always perfect..
I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng were very he….
The great documentary subjects find you, you don't really search for them..
You see reality TV and it's not reality TV. It's contrived and everything is plotted and scripted nearly. Documentaries are the same and just as bad..
I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary..
An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive..
A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted..
I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album th….