Documentary Quotes

I started as a documentary maker, and they're my first love.

— Kevin Macdonald

I would do a documentary about Jay-Z. Yes, I would.

— Ron Howard

“Documentary About Christopher”

— Anonymous

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

— Michael Moore

I really liked that documentary, 'Room 237.'

— Leigh Whannell

I never wanted to do a documentary or write a book.

— Dave Clark

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

— Michael Moore

Objectivity is the purpose of documentary filmmakers.

— Vivek Oberoi

When I'm able to bring together the two worlds that I love so much - film and TV - is a documentary…

— Dori Berinstein

“NO greater love has a husband for his wife than to watch a 2hr documentary on an elite ballet competition.”

— Mark Venturini

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

— Alfred Hitchcock

The magic of documentary is that I keep being surprised and amazed by the things I film.

— Kim Longinotto

When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize.

— Ridley Scott

“My limitless ability to weave time and space does not make me a god - just a da-n good writer.”

— Edmund Alexander Sims

Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.

— Gus Van Sant

If I weren't making documentary films, I suppose I'd be teaching.

— Brian Lindstrom

The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I…

— Criss Angel

I don't want to be on a soapbox, but I feel like a lot of documentary filmmakers are part of the ancient…

— Debra Granik

When I graduated from Brown after majoring in women's studies, I made my first PBS documentary, 'Women of Substance.' My first feature…

— Rory Kennedy

Someone said something really interesting the other day they said, "Even documentaries aren't what happened," you know there's a huge jump between…

— Bruce Cohen

Unlike the book, with a documentary, you get a chance to show much more texture and color. Film gives you get a…

— Steve Stoute

Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold…

— Henry Rollins

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

Growing up either from classes or watching movies I knew, of course, about kung fu, karate, aikido, Muay Thai... But the first…

— Gareth Evans

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

— James Nachtwey

There's a great documentary on Tupac called 'Resurrection' about the last few years of Tupac's life and how he transformed. And, ironically,…

— Marco Rubio

"Plaza de la Soledad" is a documentary about Carmen, Lety, Raquel and Esther, four strong women - middle-aged and older - who…

— Maya Goded

You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where…

— Imogen Cunningham

There's a really great documentary called 'Many Rivers,' which documents the totality of slavery from its inception, and then it gives you…

— Aldis Hodge

Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary…

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

In a fiction film, we know at some level we've suspended disbelief. In a documentary, we know that we're watching a drama…

— Joshua Oppenheimer

None of our films look alike, we are very dialectical in our approach to each one, and 'Hoop Dreams' was no exception.…

— Gordon Quinn

The documentary we are working on is about my mother, Bev Umehara, for whom our film company, Bev's Girl Films, is named…

— Garth Kravits

Before I published my first book, I worked for a while as a documentary and wedding/bar mitzvah videographer, and a part of…

— Stefan Merrill Block

“As I wrote, despite the malicious craft practiced by Hochschild and others, I am glad that an extensive documentary record of the…

— Bruce Gilley

The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the…

— Ansel Adams

“Instead, the weeds are being read as a parable, a lesson that a monolithic, oil-based urban culture is unsustainable in the twenty-first…

— Richard Mabey

You know so many documentaries now are very carefully scripted before you start, and then people are sort of put in chairs…

— Nick Broomfield

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