Michael Moore Quotes

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

'The Look' is my first documentary, and I enjoyed the freedom of working within a small team.

When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary film was.

In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.

It's hard to make a living doing documentaries. Frankly, if it takes you five years to do a film, and that's the only film you're doing, you're in trouble.

I'm completely fine with my career. I feel like I accomplished everything I ever set out to accomplish.

I started as a documentary maker, and they're my first love.

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

The first day of 'The Town' was one of the most satisfying days of my career.

The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.

There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.

I make a good living doing what I do.

I didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself.

I've been blessed to have a long career.

On 'Senna,' it got to the point where there was so much footage that our first editor had the wild suggestion that we only use the archive.

I can't complain. I'm making a living out of what I do, which is really rare for a lot of actors. The hard part is staying confident and staying with it.

I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13' and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career.

I'm blessed and proud and privileged to have played two wonderful characters on television.

My background is sociology. Combined with my graphic approach, if I could do some film projects, I think I'd be very good at making documentaries eventually, but people don't think of me for that, of course. But dialogue is something I know I can be good at.

I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with which you can hear something's going on, somebody's going to be somewhere: That sounds so interesting. Pick up your camera and go.

I've been very blessed to work in some films that I'm very proud of.

In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.

I'm good at sales. I enjoy it.