Janet Maslin Quotes

Joe Berlinger's documentary 'Whitey' is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can't take your eyes off the screen.

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

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

I love documentaries, I like observing real people.

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.

In a film called 'Senna,' the clue is in the title, and we have a Brazilian badge on our sleeve as we were making it. We were making it from Senna's point of view, with Senna narrating it.

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

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.

Bob Weir calls me a saint, but I'm 'Saint Misbehavin'.' They're making a documentary about my life, and that's the current shooting title. I can roll with that, but otherwise the s-word makes me really paranoid.

My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

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

One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.

I never wanted to do a documentary or write a book.

I really liked that documentary, 'Room 237.'

I love making documentaries. But I do like other factual entertainment as well, and I like doing the lighter stuff.

People look to cinema to spread the word and to tell these wonderful, outrageous stories or true-to-life documentaries.

I spoke to my father about making a documentary on him. I have been seriously contemplating that.

I watch documentaries and travel the world and see all sorts of life.

My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.

I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.

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

I was making a film on Muhammad Ali in 1964, and I went to Miami to film everything around the fight for the world championship with Sonny Liston. I had the good luck of flying down to Miami, and there was one empty seat, and the guy sitting next to this empty seat was Malcolm X.

I was the first independent to walk in with a documentary.

My roots are documentaries.