Stacey Dooley Quotes

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've always been a bit of a documentarian.

We should not confuse having a Flip camera with making a documentary.

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

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.

I love documentary because it's alive.

I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason.

But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made.

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

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've been doing documentaries for about 25 years and want to continue to do that, but I love the idea of working in a different medium. Advertising pushes the envelope creatively, and there is some really great work being done right now, so I'm excited to jump into it.

I hate making TV documentaries.

I think the sheer hell of trying to get a film made; I don't know if it would ultimately be worth it. The sort of format that I have, these TV things, sit somewhere between documentaries and reality shows and entertainment shows and dramas.

I learned how to tell stories with Jay-Z on 'City Is Mine.' I learned how to film and choreograph dancing on 'Can I Get A...,' and I got to kind of be a documentary filmmaker with 'Hard Knock Life.'

I've always slightly harboured a dream of making a film, a documentary feature. Somehow, I just got into a way of working a routine of making TV docs.

I'm a documentary filmmaker, I know what it means to craft a story, especially when you've shot a lot of material.

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

I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.

I'm following my interests, and there's something about investigating the world and creating a watchable, entertaining programme out of it that is deeply satisfying.

In some ways, making documentaries is like being a journalist. You interview people and then use the bits you want to use as opposed to the bits they want you to use.

I really missed what I'd done on Rogers Cable, which was shooting and editing all my own stuff.

The making of the documentary is an involving and collaborative process where you go deeper unlike in movies where you just borrow someone else's script.

My first camera job was filming workplace safety videos, which involved months of watching and videotaping people doing their jobs. I was hooked - from there, I wanted to know where they lived and the rest of their habits and desires.

My roots are documentaries.