Documentary Techniques Quotes

I had a list of 10 rules when we started 'Strong Island,' and one of them was, 'Yance will never appear on camera with sync sound.'

I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if documentary itself does as good a job. It has its own problems in trying to get at the reality of the situation.

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

If you're a great documentary filmmaker, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're a great narrative filmmaker. There are fantastic documentary filmmakers that can't direct actors. You don't have to do that in a documentary, if it's a real documentary.

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.

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

There is a porous membrane between a documentary that doesn't use interviews and what you would call a neorealist hybrid film.

I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.