Documentaries Quotes · Page 10

Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried…

— Wavy Gravy

When the world is too much, I slip down a rabbit hole and end up watching documentaries on Henry VIII and his…

— Grace Dent

I love making documentaries. But I do like other factual entertainment as well, and I like doing the lighter stuff.

— Stacey Dooley

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated,…

— Werner Herzog

In some ways, making documentaries is like being a journalist. You interview people and then use the bits you want to use…

— Kevin Macdonald

After I got kicked out of CalArts, I moved to Lawrence Kansas where my sister lived. I began working on A William…

— Yony Leyser

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I…

— Leonard Maltin

I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng…

— Lisa Immordino Vreeland

I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a…

— Oprah Winfrey

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest…

— Kurt Cobain

The older I've gotten, the more I've gotten a little precious about music-related films as it comes to biopics. I kind of…

— Elijah Wood

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me. I like the 'let's forget our…

— Jack Brickhouse

While it is increasingly possible for filmmakers to find an audience on their own (something that is particularly popular amongst documentary filmmakers)…

— Leanne Pooley

They kept asking me over and over again whether I was having a romance with Hitler. Are you Hitler's girlfriend? I laughed…

— Leni Riefenstahl

Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better…

— Vilém Flusser

I remember somebody saying something to me about Frost/Nixon, when Anthony Hopkins does his famous speech, and the difference in the way…

— Vanessa Kirby

The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me.…

— Richard Ray Perez

In documentaries, the process is that you film a lot of things, and out of what you've shot, something organically reveals itself,…

— Max Joseph

Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.

— Todd Phillips

As with the Trojans or the Tudors, there are many evergreen stories that we come back to again and again. I think…

— Lucy Worsley

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations…

— Ava DuVernay

I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.

— Billy Connolly

I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more…

— Marc Singer

It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I…

— Errol Morris

You see reality TV and it's not reality TV. It's contrived and everything is plotted and scripted nearly. Documentaries are the same…

— Ricky Gervais

The camera cannot leave the man, but the man can leave the camera. It's in the style of documentary where you make…

— Tobias Lindholm

It's unfortunate that a lot of the time in documentaries, the camera person isn't a personality. That's such a wasted opportunity.

— John Wilson

I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to…

— Shawn Ryan

Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling.

— Pamela Yates

Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film…

— Kate Cary

I don't think you make documentary films to get your country house. If you're trying to gamble on that, you've very foolish.

— Liz Garbus

Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.

— Pamela Yates

Paradoxically, in the field being a woman actually helps you: people often feel more comfortable talking to women, which is key in…

— Cosima Spender

Growing up I used to watch documentaries on people like Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson. I've grown up fascinated with legends and legacies.

— Bugzy Malone

I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the…

— Saffron Burrows

People look to cinema to spread the word and to tell these wonderful, outrageous stories or true-to-life documentaries.

— Henry Golding

When I made the switch from strictly entertainment news to more of these natural world documentaries, it's really been all about wanting…

— Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not…

— Pamela Yates

I would make documentaries if it was a worthy cause. I have a lot of respect for people who put themselves in…

— Eliot Sumner