Documentaries Quotes · Page 13

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

— Lucy Walker

It's not exactly an interview that's going on [in documentary]. I guess we do ask Edward Snowden some questions and we're recording…

— Melissa Leo

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in…

— Bradley Whitford

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and…

— Robin Tunney

Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the…

— Robert Greene

I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding…

— Benjamin Avila

You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a…

— Thom Powers

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 heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling…

— Bill Burr

If I could make a decent living doing documentaries, I would. I don't really care about [the other] stuff so much. But…

— Penelope Spheeris

I watched a documentary about Freedom Riders. One young woman told her parents, 'I'm going to leave college to ride and represent…

— Sandra Bullock

Bizarrely funny... Rarely is a documentary as well attuned to its subject as Howard Brookner's BURROUGHS, which captures as much about the…

— Janet Maslin

I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is…

— Haskell Wexler

A lot of the distinctions that we make between drama and documentary are spurious. We're deeply confused about these issues. About the…

— Errol Morris

I've known Owen's father Ron [Suskind] for years, and this was based on his best-selling book ["Life, Animated"]. We worked together as…

— Roger Ross Williams

I started by studying Kiswahili to learn the dialect. Then, I studied tapes, documentaries, footage, and audio cassettes of Idi Amin's speeches.…

— Forest Whitaker

I loved watching documentaries and had wanted to try making one for years - I'd just put it off as other opportunities…

— Marshall Curry

Documentaries sometimes can be shot over 10 years. You plan to stop in two, but you still gotta catch more.

— Gza

That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from,…

— Walter Salles

In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that…

— Garth Stein

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

How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?

— Martha Rosler

The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.

— Sonia Braga

Maybe every two films you need to do documentary to tell what you really want to tell and not be limited by…

— Fatih Ak?n

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to…

— Jonathan Demme

Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation…

— Hedi Slimane

There's a really geeky YouTube channel which I love. It's a guy called Oliver Harper. He makes documentaries about films. He's a…

— Kayvan Novak

Documentaries require an enormous amount of grit and empathy - and that is something women are incredibly strong at.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

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 mostly like documentaries, so I always think things that happened in real life are so astounding that why would you make…

— Jonah Hill

I was no stranger to risk myself, having made documentaries in dangerous conditions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Africa.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life, emotional, documentary-style, not big and cinematic and ultimately like the…

— Dan Trachtenberg

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of…

— Sam Neill

I watched this documentary on Madonna. I remember I grew up hearing she wanted to rule the world. Actually, she worked really…

— Winona Ryder

I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new…

— James Marsh

Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural.…

— Darren Aronofsky

Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be…

— Olivia Wilde

I don't think there's so much difference between making documentaries and feature films. I think it's even harder to make documentaries.

— Danis Tanovic

My dad had a dream of his kids reaching the NFL. My older brother was actually the first to make it. His…

— DeSean Jackson

The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.

— Edgar Wright