My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet,… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
In documentary we deal with the actual, and in one sense with the real. But the really real, if I may use… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
I'm a huge 'Game of Thrones' fan. I'm really into the 'Colbert Report' and 'Last Week Tonight.' And I really like to… — Scott Michael Foster Copy Share Image
Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I… — Carolyn Cassady Copy Share Image
I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
I think being really open to this new world of online and what it means to be online. Also, understanding that maybe… — Alex Stapleton Copy Share Image
Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
It's rare in a documentary film that you have a repetitive act. So when you do, you can shoot it in different… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
I personally just want to do as many different things as I can do, whether it's comedy, drama, science fiction, horror, narrator...… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
I've been in entertainment, politics, business, business coaching, public affairs, documentaries, programming, news, theater. So, there aren't many things I see that… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
A picture that is ghostly and silent can be more eloquent and less clichéd than a noisier photo-journalistic approach and I have… — Simon Norfolk Copy Share Image
I never uttered a word about things, but with my age now, I've completely lost all reservations. In more ways than one.… — Giovanna Cau Copy Share Image
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
“One of the common themes you will read in interview after interview is the call to keep fighting for your vision. This… — Melissa Silverstein Copy Share Image
There's a line I love in Conan The Barbarian where someone says, "That used to be another snake cult, now I see… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
The insanely gorgeous competition documentary on surfing obsession, Step Into Liquid — directed by Dana Brown and photographed by John-Paul Beeghly in… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
One of the things I've been talking about with my critical writing and my own work is that these movies are seen… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
I had a very short time on that film [The Possibilities Are Endless] and it was quite strange because the process was… — Yasmin Paige Copy Share Image
I watched a TV documentary about how animals are farmed, killed and prepared for us to eat. I saw all those cows… — David Haye Copy Share Image
With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
You could make a feature about the world of tickling. You could include female ticklers and you could find out why people… — David Farrier Copy Share Image
The main reason why I'm a documentary filmmaker is the power of the medium. The most powerful films I've seen have been… — Richard Ray Perez Copy Share Image
Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
Research states that we have a two-week window to act after being inspired by an experience, before the brain is compelled to… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
As far as documentaries go, I believe unreservedly that they serve an important function in our culture. I'd love to be able… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I don't know that there were any rules for documentary photography. As a matter of fact, I don't think the term was… — Jack Delano Copy Share Image
The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism,… — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
At times doc filmmaking feels more rewarding creatively. Because you are creating something out of pure cinema - instead of narrative cinema,… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
The film [Dream of Life] came together when we started editing; it was organic, it became nonlinear and it was its own… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share Image
I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on Head Start, on poverty.… — Joan Ganz Cooney Copy Share Image
![“I think being really open to this new world of online and what it means to be online. Also, understanding that maybe it's time to let go of the 90-minute experience and realize that all of the content that comes on top of the 90-minute film experience, [that] there's a lot of that, especially with…” quote by Alex Stapleton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/deb/alex-stapleton-34597_being-real_i-think-being-really-open-to-this-new-wo_2862992.jpg)
![“I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates has an amazing documentary called Many Rivers to Cross - really, his whole writings; he's such a wealth of knowledge.” quote by Jurnee Smollett](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4bd/jurnee-smollett-33553_book_i-read-slave-narratives-books-like-bullw_928537.jpg)
![“I had a very short time on that film [The Possibilities Are Endless] and it was quite strange because the process was kind of like a documentary, which was different for me. The way everything was filmed was very casual.” quote by Yasmin Paige](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/39b/yasmin-paige-18397_casual_i-had-a-very-short-time-on-that-film-the_2993037.jpg)
![“The film [Dream of Life] came together when we started editing; it was organic, it became nonlinear and it was its own animal. And I didn't want to tame it, either. I wanted it to be different. It's not your typical documentary.” quote by Steven Sebring](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/421/steven-sebring-14700_animal_the-film-dream-of-life-came-together-whe_1512115.jpg)
