Angelina Maccarone Quotes

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

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

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

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

Of course, when you're making a documentary, you don't have actors, but nonetheless, there is a writing process that does take place in the editing room.

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.

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

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 was the first independent to walk in with a documentary.

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

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

Movies are a collaboration, I feel, so I didn't think of myself as an authoritative figure as much.

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 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.

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.

I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishing that the reality I was filming would conform to my narrative propriety. But you can't control it.

I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.

I love doing features, but it's a very different ballgame. Sometimes I yearn for short films again, working with a small team, getting my hands on the clay.

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

When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.

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 think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

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

My time in documentaries was very educating, in terms of life experience as well as the filmmaking side of it.