Documentaries Quotes · Page 12

Joe Berlinger's documentary 'Whitey' is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can't take your eyes off the screen.

— Leonard Maltin

I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been…

— Sacha Baron Cohen

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and…

— Abbas Kiarostami

A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted…

— Rudolf Arnheim

When you come to documentaries, the stakes are too low for it to be cutthroat. You're all doing it for the right…

— Morgan Neville

When making documentaries, the most important thing I learned was to listen, observe gestures and facial expressions.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do…

— Norman Jewison

If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a…

— David Oyelowo

All I’ve ever wanted to do is take stills of people, or take documentaries about people, and try to express to an…

— Roger Deakins

An important documentary that sheds light on one of the most terrifying realities in the U.S. today—the commercial sexual exploitation of young…

— Rachel Lloyd

I've had frustrated storytelling juices that have been lying dormant for a long time, and I guess the documentary was a way…

— Eric Bana

Voicing acting is usually fun. I'm very curious about that world. I'm a fan of documentaries, as well, and the voice kind…

— Marg Helgenberger

Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still…

— Andy Warhol

I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well…

— Peter Greenaway

I've done documentaries and TV for six years but this was my first feature as director, so there were moments when I'd…

— Robert B. Weide

I have always felt that a lot of the most interesting work, not just mine but other people's, falls into [the] nether…

— Alex Webb

I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than…

— Dave Grohl

I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.

— Dick Van Dyke

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.

— Betty Dodson

If you think that [Yale professor James] Saiers is in the greenhouse sceptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of…

— Tom Wigley

When I have had a long day at work, I want something to watch that is funny, lighthearted and easy to get…

— Amy Childs

Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never…

— Joe Berlinger

I'm not a fan of the Eagles, but I've watched their documentary numerous times and everyone who's watched it with me has…

— Bill Hader

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

— Skrillex

There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.

— Joshua Oppenheimer

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

I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality -…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's…

— Andrew Davies

I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman…

— Rosie Perez

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There…

— Richard Donner

But if anyone so much as threatened them because of what Kaia had once done, she would turn the Slumber Party Massacre…

— Gena Showalter

A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever…

— Cate Blanchett

If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a…

— Mark Duplass

For some reason or other there was in me the desire to see the world clean and fresh and alive, as primitive…

— Aaron Siskind

Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.

— Dana Spiotta

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

There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving.

— Debra Granik

I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone…

— Michael Palin

'30 for 30s' are amazing. They're little documentaries and can be anywhere from half an hour to an hour-and-a-half - great sports stories.

— James Wolk

There's a documentary film-maker called Werner Herzog, who's a German film-maker. I really dig his stuff, I'd love to chat with him.

— Finn Jones