Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries. — A. J. Cook Copy Share Image
Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch? — Gene Siskel Copy Share Image
To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another. — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
I'm strictly a movie person. I mean, I watch the HBO documentaries and Netflix. — Maria Thayer Copy Share Image
There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling. — Owen Hart Copy Share Image
In some ways, the documentary form is a kind of trap and so is societal norms. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to… — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck,… — Richard Donner Copy Share Image
I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give… — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or quarter-fiction. The two should not go together. They… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
I do really enjoy watching documentaries because it's such an interesting foray into other people's lives. — Ego Nwodim Copy Share Image
When I'm able to bring together the two worlds that I love so much - film and TV - is a documentary… — Dori Berinstein Copy Share Image
I have made more documentaries in my time than I think I care to remember, though I am immensely proud of all… — Charles Guggenheim Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The message films that try to be message films always fail. Likewise with documentaries. The documentaries that work best are the ones… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
This whole business of documentary being a second-class citizen is bullshit. A documentary can be as interesting, as dramatic, as sad, as… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People watch more documentaries too now. These movies that would normally be shown in these little art houses, and unless you walked… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I know a lot of other actors that don't like to look at other references to their characters and things. But I… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
You try to do as much as you can on set because practical looks cool and practical looks great. Until you get… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
Every year, I'm depressed that so few of the documentaries I've loved break through. — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,. — David Dixon Copy Share Image
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism. — Tim Hetherington Copy Share Image
Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free. — Dorothy B. Porter Copy Share Image
Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up. — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
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