I had worked in fiction a lot before I started making documentaries, but when I was around 32 or 33-years-old I suddenly… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
I've been doing documentaries for about 25 years and want to continue to do that, but I love the idea of working… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
Great," Shane said. "Look i'd rather not be on janitorial duty. I have allergies to cleaners." "And to cleaning," Michael said. "Look… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I… — Brett Morgen Copy Share Image
There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. That… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Interestingly enough, I feel what the show [OJ Simpson] was able to accomplish in a really masterful way is that White America… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
It's the angle that shows how we see differently. I have always believed that all documentaries are fictional. It's really the angle… — Darius Khondji Copy Share Image
I've always slightly harboured a dream of making a film, a documentary feature. Somehow I just got into a way of working… — Louis Theroux Copy Share Image
We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For documentaries, I think streaming plays an amazing role, but it's a problem when the one service you initially relied on to… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I think we need to make documentaries about fantasy and storytelling. I think I just started to scratch the surface of a… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
And to be fair, most documentaries are half an hour too long, anyway. Let's not kid ourselves. Most movies are an hour… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also… — Giles Duley Copy Share Image
I did a few documentaries as co-director and cameraman. I started off shooting a film about the war in Rhodesia. Then I… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
We exaggerate the difference between documentary and fiction. I think that on some level a fiction film is also a documentary on… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of… — Beat Streuli Copy Share Image
I read "Milk" and immediately I was very emotional after reading it and then I saw the documentary - the one that… — Josh Brolin Copy Share Image
With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
I make documentaries from time to time to remind myself of reality. It's like musicians doing scales to keep their fingers working:… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I come from a documentary background and my natural tendency, as a filmmaker, is to make a movie, if I have something… — Jose Padilha Copy Share Image
I always remember what Bob Dylan said in that [Martin] Scorsese documentary on him. When he was asked about Joan Baez's complaints… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
I did not want to prance around trees singing and dancing. I had to make a living and for that I started… — Suhasini Mulay Copy Share Image
I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in… — John Hyams Copy Share Image
The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
As I get older it gets harder and harder to hold on to the ephemeral excitement. When a documentary, or a screenplay,… — Andrew Neel Copy Share Image
David Irving has consistenly applied an evidential double standard, demanding absolute documentary proof to convict the Germans (as when he sought to… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
I spent a year and a half working for an art fair. I worked as a post-production assistant for a documentary film… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There's a real difference between a documentary that was all about facts and history and information. People just don't get as engaged… — Abigail Disney Copy Share Image
When the American documentary filmmaker Donn Alan Pennebaker wanted to do a film on Dylan, Dylan asked him what he'd already done,… — Raymond Depardon Copy Share Image
I'm not somebody who comes in with a whole outline, and says, "Here's the movie we're going to make." That's not what… — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc.," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
![“Interestingly enough, I feel what the show [OJ Simpson] was able to accomplish in a really masterful way is that White America could look back on the show and the documentary and say, "We understand why Black people were effusive at the acquittal of O.J. Simpson."” quote by Sterling K. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2c5/sterling-k-brown-3532_able_interestingly-enough-i-feel-what-the-sho_1801265.jpg)
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