The movie industry doesn't talk about movies." But does anyone ever discuss films in Hollywood? Are these influential filmmakers guilty of discussing film noir with prejudice? Yes and no. Many directors—George Lucas, Quentin Tarantino, Spike Jonze—talk openly about working on noir films and vice versa. Most importantly, neither filmmaker talked about movies like documentary filmmaking did back in the 1960s and 1970s. Film documentaries never stopped existing as legitimate storytelling mediums and producers couldn't ignore them without damaging their careers