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For me, a real documentary is when you're really listening to somebody; they are the ones that will tell you what the story is, not you.
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The speaker describes a real documentary as an act of careful listening. The person being filmed—not the filmmaker—reveals what the story is. This suggests the filmmaker should pay attention to what people say rather than impose a story on them from the outside.
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- National Film Board of Canada
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