Beeban Kidron Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

I love documentaries, I like observing real people.

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

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

Documentaries sometimes can be shot over 10 years. You plan to stop in two, but you still gotta catch more.

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

I make films about stories that I get interested in.

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

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'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.

We should not confuse having a Flip camera with making a documentary.

You make documentaries because you love doing it; it's the only sane reason to make documentaries.

Of course, when you're making a documentary, you don't have actors, but nonetheless, there is a writing process that does take place in the editing room.

There's nothing attractive about doing a documentary. Nothing. It's hard, hard work, and I find having all the attention of the day on me a very unattractive proposition.

Maybe today I would call Fred Leuchter and there would be two or three other documentary filmmakers interested in his story simply because of the exposure.

When you're making a real documentary, you shoot it and the movie happens. You don't make - this sounds corny - you don't make a documentary, a documentary makes you. It really does.

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.

The documentaries I made were never normal documentaries. They were about subjects I was obsessed with, and I suppose I thought I could sculpt them. What I think I do with my fiction is the same.

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