Josh Fox Quotes

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

I love documentaries, I like observing real people.

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.

Documentary is reality. It shows the truth.

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

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up documentary journalism.

I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

Over the years, I have come to realize that no matter how satisfying fiction is, it becomes that much better when it actually happened.

I love making documentaries. But I do like other factual entertainment as well, and I like doing the lighter stuff.

Even the two novels I've written were based on true stories. It's how I'm wired - real life is fascinating and fantastical enough. The kind of journalism I did unpeeled lids from cans otherwise sealed.

You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.

True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely.

Film has to reflect the real world.

Cinema is not truth. Even when you make documentary films, you can choose to show this shot and not the other shot - this side and not the other side. In cinema, there's one truth - not 'the truth.' It's only 'my point of view.' Cinema is powerful because of that.

I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.

Non-fiction or documentaries can tell any kind of a story because they don't have to adhere to the rules of what's possible. When you're making something up, you have to say, 'Well, this is what would happen here,' but in reality, stuff happens that seems impossible.

Life writes the best stories.

I'm a big fan of non-fiction, and I am a believer that fact is much more exciting than fiction.

I prefer non-fiction to fiction. In fact, I don't read fiction at all. I read books that are based on true events.

Life ain't the movies.

Only love is real...everything else is illusion