I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or quarter-fiction. The two should not go together. They cannot mix.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.
With docs, there's often a very direct communication between the filmmaker and the audience. With narrative movies, we leave it a little bit more open.
I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.
'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.
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 feel like we're going to see a lot more movies that mix documentary style with fiction, more along the lines of 'District 9.'
When I'm making documentaries, I think a lot about how fiction films play. I want them to have the pacing, the twists and the character development of fiction films.
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'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.
Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.