Noel Redding Quotes

I came from a background of directing behind-the-scenes documentaries.

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 would love to direct a documentary film if any good subject comes my way.

I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don't think I could do it like I used to do it.

I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

From 2005 to 2010, I was exclusively shooting 'The Act of Killing' and then editing it.

In documentaries, the process is that you film a lot of things, and out of what you've shot, something organically reveals itself, and there's a discovery process.

It took me little more than two years to complete my film, 'Woody Allen: A Documentary.' I conducted hours of filmed interviews with Woody, who put forward no ground rules about questions I could ask, or topics to avoid.

Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.

When making documentaries, the most important thing I learned was to listen, observe gestures and facial expressions.

Movies, to a large extent, stand or fall on the strength of their scripts. But a documentary is a collection of found objects: fragments you've collected, accidents of interview and happenstance, pieces of stock footage that surface in the course of six to nine months of research and production.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

My first film was 'Thiranottam.' I cannot discount that film because I got initiated into films with it.

Craftsmanship and logic is key to any movie-making.

I've always been in awe of filmmakers and their patience in realizing their vision because I could never do that.

Pooja Bhatt is a very good director.

I love directing as I've got such a fantastic, a creative mind.

What got me into making movies was that I wanted to be a journalist.

Shooting videos is the most intense, full-body experience.

I have a dormant director in me. I do think about subjects and films I want to make. I get pretty excited about them.

My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.

To do your first film is a dream.

I'm gonna direct, like, a real movie. At least an hour and some change.

I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier.