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I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.
— Jason Silva
I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the 'CBS Evening News.' You could see that the audiences were eroding.
— Howard Stringer
You don't have to watch many wildlife documentaries to know that the herd doesn't accept the lone straggler.
— Holly Goldberg Sloan
Documentaries make a difference.
— Paul Watson
I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.
— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
I've always intended to eventually make films. I've always been very aware of tone and shots. But documentaries are a great proving ground for me.
— George Ratliff
When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.
— Norman Jewison
Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.
— Meshell Ndegeocello
Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.
— Dana Spiotta
I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things.
— Michael Apted
With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of.
— Chris Shiflett
Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.
— Michael Rapaport
Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.
— Michael Moore
I have always felt that documentaries are an opportunity for me to witness a world that I know nothing about.
— Chris Hegedus
Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
— Barbara Kopple
In documentaries, you're confronted with reality; you can not manipulate or move it.
— Jean-Pierre Dardenne
I have made more documentaries in my time than I think I care to remember, though I am immensely proud of all my work.
— Charles Guggenheim
I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.
— Frank Marshall
I feel like a lot of funders of documentaries today want to fund films that have a social message that is going to yield results.
— Marshall Curry
I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
— Tatjana Patitz
When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.
— Betty Dodson
In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.
— Abbas Kiarostami
I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all.
— Brian Lindstrom
That's my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
— Walker Evans
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
— Alfred Hitchcock
My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on.
— Andrew Davies
When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out.
— Pamela Yates
I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.
— Matthew Gray Gubler
I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.
— Dick Van Dyke
I think most documentaries are too long.
— Marshall Curry
Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries.
— Pirjo Honkasalo
Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.
— Terry Zwigoff
Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.
— Griffin Dunne
You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
— Werner Herzog
I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.
— Maria Thayer
A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.
— Rudolf Arnheim
As an actor, your text is your bible, so you're not making a documentary, but you still have to follow the choices made by your writer.
— Natalie Dormer
I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.
— Alice Walker
I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.
— Henry Rollins
People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.
— Laura Prepon
Every year, I'm depressed that so few of the documentaries I've loved break through.
— David Edelstein
My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
— Lasse Hallstrom
There's a wide range today of documentaries on politics. The central mass of it is made by networks, and nothing's changed.
— Robert Drew
I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.
— Jonathan Demme
I like independent movies, documentaries. There's not a lot of movies that are commercially made that I dig.
— Jeff Garlin
In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role.
— Liz W. Garcia
I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.
— James Marsh
I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.
— Robert Zemeckis
You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.
— Tim Hetherington
I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.
— Joan Fontcuberta
The best documentaries are independent. They don't exist to serve interests, philanthropic or otherwise.
— Nick Fraser
Fear is not a word in my football documentary.
— Jose Mourinho
A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.
— Roger Ebert
I love documentaries, I like observing real people.
— Tracey Ullman
It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.
— Werner Herzog
Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.
— Bela Fleck
You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.
— Errol Morris
I hate making TV documentaries.
— Jamie Oliver
Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.
— Steven Spielberg
I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is an important issue.
— Haskell Wexler
Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.
— Chris Lilley
I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
— Hannah Gadsby
I've made many documentaries, but prostitution was the hardest in terms of gaining the trust of the people being filmed.
— Michael Glawogger
A good film is also a documentary
— Eric Rohmer
People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain.
— James Nesbitt
No one likes documentaries.
— Alex Gibney
I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.
— Catherine Opie
Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.
— Fran Lebowitz
