Lukasz Fabianski Quotes

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

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

I love documentaries, I like observing real people.

I've often thought even ragtag gatherings of documentary filmmakers are more fun than gatherings of fiction filmmakers.

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

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

The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.

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

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

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.

I'm not one of those people who sees documentaries as a stepping stone to doing fiction. I love documentaries and watch tons of documentaries. But, I like fiction films a lot, too.

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

With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories.

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

Brilliant documentaries are about so much more than their subject.

I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries.

As far as the balance between being a journalist, being an artist, being a storyteller - documentary filmmakers are all three of those things. The balance between them is affected by the film itself, the topic of the film.

Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape. There is this breed of gimmicky documentary that is basically a reality show.

For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

Some filmmakers are more eclectic than others. I'm not one of those! I'm interested in what I'm interested in, which is films about the world, about what's going on. I started in TV documentaries with 'World in Action,' and those interests feed into the films I make now.

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

I've always been weirdly interested in food documentaries.

I always thought of documentaries as films through which you find your voice as a narrator.

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