Bruce Jackson Quotes

In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

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.

So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.

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

I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishing that the reality I was filming would conform to my narrative propriety. But you can't control it.

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 didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself.

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.

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 the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with which you can hear something's going on, somebody's going to be somewhere: That sounds so interesting. Pick up your camera and go.

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

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

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

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.

With documentaries, what's beautiful about them is that you capture something unique in a shot, something that will never repeat itself.

I don't think there's so much difference between making documentaries and feature films. I think it's even harder to make documentaries.

I just like documentaries.

When I'm filming a documentary, I feel like I should be the straight man, watching with a raised eyebrow.

I started as a documentary maker, and they're my first love.

I'm not a documentarian. I'm not a photojournalist.

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

We do documentaries on the history of cinema in between our feature films.

On 'Senna,' it got to the point where there was so much footage that our first editor had the wild suggestion that we only use the archive.