Documentaries Quotes · Page 8

I always thought of documentaries as films through which you find your voice as a narrator.

— Diego Luna

I'm primarily an actor and only make documentaries when I see a story others have missed.

— Keith Allen

Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.

— Chris Lilley

News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.

— Robert Greene

If you're not doing it for the right reasons, then you'd be dumb to be making documentaries.

— Morgan Neville

Documentaries are my favorite thing, and the more depressing, the better.

— Maria Thayer

Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.

— Marion Cotillard

Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries.

— Pirjo Honkasalo

Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini…

— Fran Lebowitz

I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's…

— Christopher Koch

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

— Jonathan Demme

I love to travel, which is sort of why I do documentaries and why I'm in this whole world of movies -…

— Fisher Stevens

My time in documentaries was very educating, in terms of life experience as well as the filmmaking side of it.

— Roger Deakins

When I left 'American Morning' in 2007, I'd focused on doing documentaries. But I thought 'Starting Point' was a great opportunity to…

— Soledad O'Brien

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

— Diane Cilento

I've always intended to eventually make films. I've always been very aware of tone and shots. But documentaries are a great proving…

— George Ratliff

I don't like things about serial killers. There's so much serial killer information out there in documentaries constantly. A lot of it's…

— Stanley Tucci

I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's…

— Michael Moore

Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you're focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don't have, focusing…

— Ava DuVernay

I've done experimental work, I've done real conventional documentaries that were very successful, like Las Madres that was nominated for an Academy…

— Lourdes Portillo

I think there have been so many documentaries about pop stars, made by pop stars. It's a new phenomenon. People making these…

— Judd Apatow

The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction…

— James Nachtwey

It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it…

— Sam Abell

People are beginning to realize that it's important that we see animals in a natural state - but through film, through video,…

— Montel Williams

There's always the question when you're making a documentary if the talking heads will work.

— Heidi Ewing

In documentaries, you're confronted with reality; you can not manipulate or move it.

— Jean-Pierre Dardenne

A lot of documentaries are about something that already happened, but I think people are kind of afraid to let the story…

— John Wilson

Because in this business, as you know, you don't get that many bites at the apple, so I make documentaries for HBO…

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about…

— Clive James

There have been so many stories about alcoholism and drugs. Eating disorders are also a form of abuse, but rarely a theme…

— Sanna Lenken

You know, a lot of my favorite moments in old, you know, fiction films or documentaries are the parts that capture things…

— John Wilson

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm…

— Ruth Brown

With Netflix, I browse; I watch documentaries about things I'd never dream of, but I think, 'I might as well.'

— Ricky Gervais

I wasn't really that informed about the two-year-old. Oh, I'd read about them, and occasionally I'd see documentaries on the Discovery Channel…

— Ray Romano

People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain.

— James Nesbitt

[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by…

— Pierre Mac Orlan

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction…

— Jean-Luc Godard

I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a…

— Mira Nair

Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you…

— Henry Rollins