Documentaries Quotes · Page 7

A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.

— Roger Ebert

I've done several commercials and I've done voiceovers for documentaries.

— Jeff Bridges

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

— James Marsh

These people [the Christians] watched the Flintstones as if it were a documentary.

— Lewis Black

I love those documentaries where everyone is fabulous and always perfect.

— Katy Perry

I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.

— Robert Redford

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

— Lasse Hallstrom

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

— Dorothea Lange

I have always felt that documentaries are an opportunity for me to witness a world that I know nothing about.

— Chris Hegedus

As far as documentaries, 'Man on Wire,' 'Atomic Cafe,' 'Waltz With Bashir,' and 'Thin Blue Line' all offered me different perspectives to…

— Keith Maitland

I think I did fifteen long features and fifteen documentaries, or something like this, which is very little when you think of…

— Agnes Varda

I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that…

— Timothy Bottoms

Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has…

— Walker Evans

People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in…

— Alex Hammond

I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've…

— George Saunders

It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a…

— Robert Greene

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

Non-fiction or documentaries can tell any kind of a story because they don't have to adhere to the rules of what's possible.…

— Morgan Neville

When was the last time you saw a documentary that fundamentally changed the way you think? ...Pandora’s Promise is built around what…

— Owen Gleiberman

I think most albums deserve a documentary because [an album] is a visual book. You don't have to read up on it…

— Nas

I've been wanting to do a documentary on the true heart of the groupie ever since I was one. The groupie is…

— Pamela Des Barres

In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow,…

— Naomi Wolf

Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt…

— Errol Morris

Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.

— David Riesman

Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.

— Stephanie Coontz

My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.

— Noel Redding

I only ever wanted to do history, and make documentaries.

— David Olusoga

I never say I make documentaries. I say I make television.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

I'm a big watcher of sports, consumer of sports content, so I love documentaries; I love the format.

— Peter Billingsley

I love documentaries. I love the format. I've been doing them for a long time.

— Morgan Neville

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

— Gaspar Noe

I came from a background of directing behind-the-scenes documentaries.

— Peyton Reed

We do documentaries on the history of cinema in between our feature films.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

I don't watch a lot of TV, but I watch cartoons. And documentaries.

— Britne Oldford

The great documentary subjects find you, you don't really search for them.

— Jeremy Coon

I tend to gravitate towards sitcoms more and documentaries.

— Gareth Evans

There's a lot of documentaries out in the world; it sometimes seems as if there's no topic left!

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

— Jason Silva

I know it might be kind of ironic, but I like funny films and documentaries.

— Danny Lloyd