Documentary Quotes
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Documentary Quotes & Sayings
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Like theatre, crafting a documentary film takes tremendous commitment, patience and passion.
— Dori Berinstein
The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.
— Joel Edgerton
'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
— Jack Horner
It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
There's an amazing documentary, 'The Day After Trinity,' which is crazy good.
— John Benjamin Hickey
When I look back at the way that I was in that documentary I cringe.
— Benjamin Cohen
Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.
— Dana Spiotta
How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?
— Martha Rosler
Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
You can't hope for a better result as a campaigner than to have the prime minister announce a major policy change within 48 hours of your documentary.
— Heather Brooke
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
In 2008, A.J. Schnack recruited Thom Powers to start the Cinema Eye Honors to recognize the artistry and craft that go into making documentary films.
— Marshall Curry
I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.
— Mike Mills
Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.
— Michael Moore
Two remarkable men one young, one old
fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On. — Leonard Maltin
The worst thing that can happen to a comedian is to do a documentary on your life and you're watching it with an audience and there's not a laugh.
— David Steinberg
NO greater love has a husband for his wife than to watch a 2hr documentary on an elite ballet competition.
— Mark Venturini
I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.
— Gillian Armstrong
And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.
— Michael Patrick Jann
We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.
— Colin Mochrie
A good film is also a documentary
— Eric Rohmer
I don't have a horror film in me just because I don't like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary in me, and I certainly have dramas.
— Todd Phillips
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 think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?
— Robert Redford
I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.
— Jamie Bell
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
Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.
— Martin Parr
She's a documentary whore." "I'm a documentary junkie,
— Resa Nelson
When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary film was.
— Tony Kaye
I think the documentary is something that people are hungry for, that it embodies careful thought, nuance.
— Beeban Kidron
All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.
— Ruth Brown
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.
— Catherine Opie
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
A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.
— Dorothy B. Porter
That's my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
— Walker Evans
I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.
— Chris Lilley
I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.
— Lauren Greenfield
Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.
— Leos Carax
Documentary evidence says where there is smoke there is fire, be it holy smoke or otherwise.
— Christina Engela
I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.
— Gus Van Sant
I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.
— Mary Ellen Mark
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
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 think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.
— Leslie Cockburn
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
For a documentary it's so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
— Adam McKay
When I'm able to bring together the two worlds that I love so much - film and TV - is a documentary feature, it's nirvana!
— Dori Berinstein
I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.
— Simon Beaufoy
Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
— Naomi Wolf
Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.
— Bela Fleck
The written word is greatest sacred documentation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.
— Michael Moore
I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.
— Catherine Opie
When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.
— Diane Cilento
Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.
— Spike Jonze
You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens.
— Ed Cunningham
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
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
— Yahoo Serious
I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.
— Sheila Nevins
I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally ... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.
— Julia Roberts
When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.
— Leslie Cockburn
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
I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up documentary journalism.
— Jamie Johnson
A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.
— Roger Ebert
Reality TV has ruined people's ability to watch documentary.
— David Farrier
