Stacey Dooley Quotes

There's something about the lack of certainty with a documentary, which is exhausting if you do three in a row. It's nerve-wracking.

I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.

If I wanted to make something that actually made a difference roughly in this industry, I would make a documentary. That would be the closest I could come to actually try and make a difference.

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

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

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 feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don't think I could do it like I used to do it.

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

In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here.

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

I've always been a bit of a documentarian.

I came from a background of directing behind-the-scenes documentaries.

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

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

I learned how to tell stories with Jay-Z on 'City Is Mine.' I learned how to film and choreograph dancing on 'Can I Get A...,' and I got to kind of be a documentary filmmaker with 'Hard Knock Life.'

It's weird writing for a documentary because I have all these ideas for what I want to happen, but what actually happens is obviously completely different.

I've always slightly harboured a dream of making a film, a documentary feature. Somehow, I just got into a way of working a routine of making TV docs.

Documentaries require an enormous amount of grit and empathy - and that is something women are incredibly strong at.

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

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

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

As a documentary filmmaker, 'Meru' was an irresistible challenge. You can spend years searching for the right story, but this one had all the elements: the obstacles, the characters, and the drama.

The making of the documentary is an involving and collaborative process where you go deeper unlike in movies where you just borrow someone else's script.