I'm saying, Please blow up.

What do you think about your movie?

Uh,the documentaries

Some nature programme about elephants.

When i made that film it was made about the writing scene documenting that

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I watched a documentary.

Came up in a documentary about the roaring '20s.

And it is for those in the future to envy us our joy.

We're looking for a backer.

Now, that's not a new story.

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Self Evident Truths is a photographic record of LGBTQ America today.

And this is from a documentary called Sexual Practices and Populations Control

And these are six minutes they really prepared for the TED audience.

What I discovered was this is not true.

I spent the best part of last year working on a documentary about my own happiness trying to see if I can actually train my mind in a particular way,

I saw a documentary on desert snakes on the Discovery Channel.

And I just wanted to share with you there's one reporter that came.

Watch it carefully. I'm working with a young computer animator documentarian named Nick Deamer, and this is a little demo that he's done for me, part of a larger project some of you may be interested in.

So while other kids were watching sitcoms and cartoons,

This mass suicide was actually discovered by a documentary crew here

But on the other side of that, though, we were big readers in our house.

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I have dedicated my life to documenting the work of Israelis and Palestinians who are trying to end the conflict using peaceful means.

Erm, we're gonna be watching a documentary now, and you're not allowed to watch television, are you?

I'm so grateful I have him.

Yeah, it's a disease on The Discovery Channel where all your intestines sort of just slip out of your butt.

I guess the story actually has to start maybe back in the the 1960s, when I was seven or eight years old, watching Jacques Cousteau documentaries on the living room floor with my mask and flippers on.

I don't watch a lot of movies, but I can't resist a good documentary.

And you know, you earn someone's trust, especially in doc filmmaking, through your relationship.

And throughout the book, there's over an hour of documentary footage and interactive animations.

So our presence behind her, completely visible to the audience, is a quiet way of saying

And that actually, at that moment something happened to me, which obviously made me go, I'm going to document.

One of them, Lima Sahar, is a Pashtun from Kandahar, a very conservative part of the country.

And so right afterwards, I met backstage with Al, and with Lawrence Bender, who was there, and Laurie David, and Davis Guggenheim, who was running documentaries for Participant at the time.

And a documentary that we're doing on Jimmy Carter and his Mid East peace efforts over the years.

When I said earlier, to try and tell a story from the inside out, versus the outside in part of what Chris said so eloquently in his introduction is this melding.

People sort of think I went away between Titanic and Avatar and was buffing my nails someplace, sitting at the beach.

What happens at ground level, far from the halls of power, happens to ordinary citizens one by one.

It's thanks to him, his 134 award winning films and documentaries, and 72 books that hundreds of millions of people around the world have been able to dive virtually in this fantastic realm.

led directly to ARPA, and the Internet, and, of course, NASA.

I was watching very esoteric documentaries made by and about women.

And so I start thinking Max Miedinger and all those Swiss designers together, trying to outdo Akzidenz Grotesk, and come up with a new sans serif typeface and the movie starts playing in my head already.