Documentaries Quotes · Page 4

I am particularly pleased to see that there are so many women working in documentary film.

— Chris Hegedus

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

— Mike Mills

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

— Leos Carax

Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.

— Adam Curtis

Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.

— Terry Zwigoff

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

— Walter Salles

I want to start producing the documentaries and programmes I'm involved with.

— Zara McDermott

I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all.

— Brian Lindstrom

Theatre is filled w/ passion, risk and drama (as much behind-the-curtain as on stage), perfect ingredients for documentary storytelling.

— Dori Berinstein

There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary,…

— Lloyd Kaufman

When critics talk about Three, they talk about 'Don't Tell the Bride' and 'Snog Marry Avoid?,' but we're also making important documentaries.…

— Stacey Dooley

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

— Jamie Bell

I have tried reading the Bible but that's a tough read there. I watch a lot of religious documentaries. I have a…

— Jim Jefferies

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in…

— Michael Apted

I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is…

— Forest Whitaker

It's the best - combining the mediums of television, documentary, and books, to give you this transmedia experience for kids, for families,…

— Jeff Corwin

I'm Min's fairy godmother, Charm Boy,' Liza said, frowning down at him. 'And if you don't give her a happily ever after,…

— Jennifer Crusie

When I watch my early documentaries, they're very eclectic. They don't follow any particular [pattern]. I would have gotten thrown out of…

— Pawel Pawlikowski

My background is sociology. Combined with my graphic approach, if I could do some film projects, I think I'd be very good…

— David Carson

A lot of documentaries have been made very quickly, but I think they're like frogs in an ecosystem: They're harbingers. Film is…

— Alexander Payne

I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated…

— Scott Ritter

I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It…

— Boris Johnson

I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then…

— Jack Handey

People watch more documentaries too now. These movies that would normally be shown in these little art houses, and unless you walked…

— Rosario Dawson

Now documentary evidence is acceptable. What does that mean? If you have documentary evidence that a person served as a guard in…

— Marvin Hier

I think the beauty of documentary work is that it's a mystery - you never know where it's going to lead you.…

— Gail Levin

For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux…

— Eugene Atget

Do I believe the execution will work out? Les Moonves said yes to Survivor based partly upon my show Eco-Challenge. He liked…

— Scott Raab

There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II.…

— Steven Spielberg

You try to do as much as you can on set because practical looks cool and practical looks great. Until you get…

— Kimberly Peirce

In an old model, the way a film would imprint itself on the public's consciousness is to get a theatrical run. But…

— Thom Powers

I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written…

— Ben Stiller

I love going on BBC6 and BBC7 and listening to documentaries.

— Burn Gorman

I love documentaries. My problem is when the filmmaker becomes the star.

— Christopher Guest

With documentaries, you go in with an open-mind but knowing what you want.

— Chris Metzler

Whenever I watch a documentary about the space, I find the news in the world very funny and dull!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

— Frederick Wiseman

We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary.

— Michael Moore

I think books make you think in a different way than movies and documentaries.

— MO