Documentaries Quotes

I am really into crime documentaries.

— Ananya Birla

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

— Michael Moore

I'm a massive sucker for music documentaries.

— Stephen Mangan

I just like documentaries.

— Lukasz Fabianski

There's no money in documentaries.

— Sydney Pollack

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

— Michael Moore

No one likes documentaries.

— Alex Gibney

I love documentaries, I like observing real people.

— Tracey Ullman

I've always been weirdly interested in food documentaries.

— Lily Collins

I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries.

— Martin Parr

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

— Griffin Dunne

I like documentaries; I watch the Soccer Channel; I like the Military Channel.

— Steve Jones

Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.

— Gus Van Sant

If I weren't making documentary films, I suppose I'd be teaching.

— Brian Lindstrom

Documentary films have always been my passion, I have done documentaries.

— Shoojit Sircar

Brilliant documentaries are about so much more than their subject.

— Gemma Whelan

I do really enjoy watching documentaries because it's such an interesting foray into other people's lives.

— Ego Nwodim

When I'm able to bring together the two worlds that I love so much - film and TV - is a documentary…

— Dori Berinstein

I have made more documentaries in my time than I think I care to remember, though I am immensely proud of all…

— Charles Guggenheim

I have always felt that documentaries are an opportunity for me to witness a world that I know nothing about.

— Chris Hegedus

Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has…

— Walker Evans

People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in…

— Alex Hammond

I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've…

— George Saunders

As far as documentaries, 'Man on Wire,' 'Atomic Cafe,' 'Waltz With Bashir,' and 'Thin Blue Line' all offered me different perspectives to…

— Keith Maitland

It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it…

— Sam Abell

People are beginning to realize that it's important that we see animals in a natural state - but through film, through video,…

— Montel Williams

The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I…

— Criss Angel

I think there have been so many documentaries about pop stars, made by pop stars. It's a new phenomenon. People making these…

— Judd Apatow

The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction…

— James Nachtwey

Someone said something really interesting the other day they said, "Even documentaries aren't what happened," you know there's a huge jump between…

— Bruce Cohen

Unlike the book, with a documentary, you get a chance to show much more texture and color. Film gives you get a…

— Steve Stoute

The documentaries are one thing - I was highlighting someone else's work, someone else's genius. Once I had to find my own…

— Robert B. Weide

My wife made me watch this documentary about the Iraq War, and there was a really powerful moment where they followed some…

— Charlie Brooker

Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called…

— Dustin Hoffman

The documentary we are working on is about my mother, Bev Umehara, for whom our film company, Bev's Girl Films, is named…

— Garth Kravits

Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any…

— James Berardinelli

We're bombarded with liberal propaganda 24/7, from the early morning shows, Hollywood movies, documentaries and sitcoms, all major newspapers, fashion magazines, the…

— Ann Coulter

The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the…

— Ansel Adams

In the early 1970s, the northern hemisphere appeared to have been cooling at an alarming rate. There was frequent talk of a…

— Stephen Schneider

I think the Republicans and conservatives generally were alienated by America's unsuccessful effort in Vietnam, and a lot of them, as Henry…

— William J. Clinton