Tony Kaye Quotes

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

I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but it's difficult to find backing for them.

'The Look' is my first documentary, and I enjoyed the freedom of working within a small team.

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 don't know if I'd mastered that documentary format, but I wanted to move on from it.

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

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

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.

Documentary films have always been my passion, I have done documentaries.

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

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

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 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.

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

It's hard not to want to become Ken Burns at times. I'm interested in being a Ken Burns who reaches that 17-year-old who goes to the multiplex just to see a good story well-told. And if there's history in it, all the better.

With documentaries, what's beautiful about them is that you capture something unique in a shot, something that will never repeat itself.

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

When I'm filming a documentary, I feel like I should be the straight man, watching with a raised eyebrow.

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

I spent 12 years doing different things in film trying to figure out the story I wanted to tell.

I don't normally make documentaries. I'm a drama director. I've made a few short docs, but I don't like talking heads or 'voice of God' narrators.

Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.

I didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself.

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.