I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.

I have watched a documentary on Caster Semenya. I am inspired by how she made a comeback.

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

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...

I was brought up in Guildford, and I think I used to absorb all the suburban things - seeing coffee mornings, women talking... that stuff, really. I was watching Alan Ayckbourn on some documentary,...

I'll read a book. I'll watch a documentary or a film or whatever. I'll go to an art exhibit and just try and open myself to influence.

The documentary 'Certifiably Jonathan' has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It's got a great subject - the extraordinarily voluble comedian Jonathan Winters, whose constant rush of words can...

When I reach out to people to ask them to be involved in anything I shoot, I want them to want to share their story.

If you're going to see 'City of Ghosts' because you want to understand everything about the Syrian conflict and how to fix it, then it's the wrong film to see.

When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.

Yeah, I think any type of filmmaking is good as an on-ramp to making films. But I will say that documentary filmmakers have a certain - and I could be wrong - but there's something non-fiction or...

I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a documentary filmmaker and worked for German television, I was of course fascinated by what he did....

With a documentary, you can cut away, you can do jump cuts, cut to a photograph at any point to bridge two scenes.

I feel like so much of what passes as documentary or reality TV is just so over-edited, and you don't get a real sense of who this person is.

It took me a little more than two years to complete my film, 'Woody Allen: A Documentary.' I conducted hours of filmed interviews with Woody, who put forward no ground rules about questions I could...

1925's 'The Lost World' is... really, everything a dinosaur movie should be. Like a dinosaur, this classic was once extinct too, existing as mere fragmentary footage and stills, but cinemaphile...

Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of...

I want to do a documentary about strippers, because it's a moneymaker.

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.

Raman Raghav was shot on location, but there are many stylistic things in it. I like this mixture of documentary and extreme stylization.

I think making a documentary gets you out and about more, with people. With stand-up, you're talking at people. With documentaries you're talking with people, and you're listening a lot more.

Regardless of the medium, be it television or feature or documentary, I'm not gonna distinguish and worry about my particular canon, whatever that means.

I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.