Elaine Stritch Quotes

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

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'm kind of like Britney Spears having a headache. Everybody wants to know about it.

Every time I think I'd want a huge, huge career, I realize I'd go crazy under that kind of scrutiny.

Honestly, man, I'm not somebody who wants the celebrity. I could really care less about that stuff. I know everyone says it, but I get overwhelmed by it all sometimes.

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

There's something about the lack of certainty with a documentary, which is exhausting if you do three in a row. It's nerve-wracking.

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.

It's been perfect. I can still ride a subway and work with great people. I can't imagine being Julia Roberts. I don't have the fortitude to withstand that kind of attention.

Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

When you're making a real documentary, you shoot it and the movie happens. You don't make - this sounds corny - you don't make a documentary, a documentary makes you. It really does.

An actor's life is pretty much like any profession, full of highs and lows; only because this is the glamour world - everything gets reported.

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 wasn't used to all these cameras getting stuck in my face. I feel like Justin Bieber sometimes.

When you make a documentary, you have to adapt to what reality imposes upon you.

We talk about, 'Wow, thank God that we were out when we were, because it was much easier then.' There wasn't paparazzi following you every step of your day, every move you make.

Documentaries require an enormous amount of grit and empathy - and that is something women are incredibly strong at.

It wasn't very easy getting used to being famous. Everybody stared at me in the supermarket and on the street. I think my life changed, for sure.

A mockumentary is supposed to be real, and we were frustrated with mockumentaries on TV, which are so rampant because of the success of 'The Office.' It's not real. You watch and ask why is there even a crew there. They never set it up in the narrative. You have a documentary crew following families for reasons we don't understand.

I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.

We were under scrutiny when Stephen became rich and famous. The media were in the house, and camera leads were absolutely everywhere - it was just nightmarish.

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

I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.

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

I struggled with the limelight.