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I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.
-Robert Redford
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I Think Independent Filmmakers, Documentary Filmmakers -

Robert Redford
I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.
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If you're a great documentary filmmaker, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're a great narrative filmmaker. there are fantastic documentary filmmakers that can't direct actors. you don't have to do that in a documentary, if it's a real documentary.
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When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. it should be documentary style, because documentary is police photography of a scene and a murder ... that's a real document. you see, art is really useless, and a document has use. and therefore, art is never a document, but it can adopt that style. i do it. i'm called a documentary photographer. but that presupposes a quite subtle knowledge of this distinction.
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Too few journalists become screenwriters. i say to all the would-be screenwriters: become journalists. and i’ll say to working journalists: do not stay journalists. become screenwriters.
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I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. and i think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries.
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There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, i mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. and that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. they're not written, not rehearsed. it's spontaneous, extemporaneous material. people
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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.
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