Tracey Ullman Quotes

I love documentary because it's alive.

I love documentaries. I love the format. I've been doing them for a long time.

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

I'm not one of those people who sees documentaries as a stepping stone to doing fiction. I love documentaries and watch tons of documentaries. But, I like fiction films a lot, too.

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

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.

The thing about documentary is that you don't really choose your subjects: they come and grab you out of your bed.

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

I'm following a real event and real people.

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

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 just like documentaries.

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

What's great about documentary, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of 'documentary.'

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.

I've always been a bit of a documentarian.

I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if documentary itself does as good a job. It has its own problems in trying to get at the reality of the situation.

Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape. There is this breed of gimmicky documentary that is basically a reality show.

The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

Some filmmakers are more eclectic than others. I'm not one of those! I'm interested in what I'm interested in, which is films about the world, about what's going on. I started in TV documentaries with 'World in Action,' and those interests feed into the films I make now.