I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng… — Lisa Immordino Vreeland Copy Share Image
“If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me.… — Richard Ray Perez Copy Share Image
In documentaries, the process is that you film a lot of things, and out of what you've shot, something organically reveals itself,… — Max Joseph Copy Share Image
In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
“If you are an aspiring honey farmer, I have a documentary you NEED to watch. It's called The Beekeeper, and it stars… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When you're making a real documentary, you shoot it and the movie happens. You don't make - this sounds corny - you… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
I'm a curious guy. I can't turn away from an investigative story, when it comes to the forensic analysis. I've done 33… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
I love the 'Housewives.' I don't watch 'American Idol' or 'X Factor.' I guess I don't like network reality: I like my… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
While the documentary community is way ahead of Hollywood, it is still nowhere near where it needs to be. Filmmakers of color… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
“The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was fooled a bit during 'Laguna Beach.' I was 17, 18 years old, and I thought they just wanted to shoot… — Stephen Colletti Copy Share Image
When I'm not singing, I'm a lot of persons: I'm a producer. I'm a badminton player. I'm a writer. I'm a movie… — Arijit Singh Copy Share Image
I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
If I wanted to make something that actually made a difference roughly in this industry, I would make a documentary. That would… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
Of course, when you're making a documentary, you don't have actors, but nonetheless, there is a writing process that does take place… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
My dad had made a documentary called 'The Dream Factory' about MGM, and my whole life, I just wanted to be inside… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishing that the… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I'm not somebody who comes in with a whole outline, and says, "Here's the movie we're going to make." That's not what… — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
In documentary we deal with the actual, and in one sense with the real. But the really real, if I may use… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
“I just watched this documentary on the mating habits of whiptail lizards and trust me, if those things can make it happen,… — Robin Bielman Copy Share Image
I don't think you make documentary films to get your country house. If you're trying to gamble on that, you've very foolish. — Liz Garbus Copy Share Image
I feel like we're going to see a lot more movies that mix documentary style with fiction, more along the lines of… — Josh Trank Copy Share Image
I came to know Colonel Lakshmi Sehgal when I was directing the documentary, 'The Forgotten Army,' retracing the Indian National Army's attempt… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
The Netflix thing with Nas is more of a documentary, where we kind of... talk. We go to my neighborhood. You get… — Dave East Copy Share Image
It's rare in a documentary film that you have a repetitive act. So when you do, you can shoot it in different… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the… — Saffron Burrows Copy Share Image
When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
The making of the documentary is an involving and collaborative process where you go deeper unlike in movies where you just borrow… — Javed Jaffrey Copy Share Image
As much as I like Michael Moore - and I'm on the same political side as him - I think his documentaries… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
We watched a documentary, which taught us about vegetarianism and the health benefits. A month later, we went vegan and I have… — Coleen Nolan Copy Share Image
A stand-up comedian who's assaultive and decent and has managed a career that has spanned over five decades deserves a documentary. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Any nature documentary or TV show will always make you start thinking differently about what surrounds us and how to take care… — Miquita Oliver Copy Share Image
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