Films can't change the society, they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism. I feel formally that I've scratched the surface of something very important about the nature of nonfiction film, about what we're very rarely honest about: When you film anybody, they start performing.
I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.
The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.
When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.
I haven't written a whole lot of nonfiction, but what I have written leads me to believe that it's an entirely different muscle. The ongoing paradox is that sometimes it's harder to get to the emotional truth of something when you only have the facts at your disposal.
If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them, except that at least in fiction, the choice of what perspective and bias to tell a given story from - which is always a deliberate choice - is foregrounded and clear.
I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.
My work was entirely nonfiction.
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.
We approach nonfiction at a much different level than we approach fiction or poetry or drama: that there's almost no room for metaphor. We expect the "I" in any nonfiction text to be an autobiographical "I" when there is a history in the essay of the "I" being a persona.
I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.
I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.
I don't have time to read nonfiction.
Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre where a writer can make a mark and change an aspect of the world - much more so than in fiction.
I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.
Nonfiction is never going to die.
Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.