Factual Content Quotes

I watch mostly documentaries and things that aren't remotely funny.

Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post.

Entertainment that is fact-based is, I think, where people really learn the most, because they're leaning in, their curiosity is stimulated and they're being entertained.

I don't try to sensationalize anybody. I'm not trying to entertain. I'm trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.

I'm a big fan of non-fiction, and I am a believer that fact is much more exciting than fiction.

I tend to read non-fiction.

When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

I watch '60 Minutes' and 'Dateline' and '20/20.' I work in fantasy all day, so when I go home I want to touch reality.

The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

Sustentative ideas are more important than applause lines. Substance makes speeches.

If you wanna write non-fiction you have to be interested in the world.

I don't like books, they're all fact, no heart.

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

In documentaries, you're confronted with reality; you can not manipulate or move it.

There's a real difference between a documentary that was all about facts and history and information. People just don't get as engaged in that kind of documentary - they don't fall in love, they don't cry, they don't forget who they are, they don't ride with you. As we realized we had richer, vérité kind of people, what we wanted to do is focus in on the vérité story.

I'll sit down for 'Stranger Things' or 'The Handmaid's Tale' - or a really good documentary.