In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that… — Garth Stein 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'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary,… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
Since I come from documentary background and my father is a documentary filmmaker, for me the core essence of cinema is it's… — Ivan Tverdovsky Copy Share Image
I like to tell people that I have the best job in the media. All I do is hang around with heroes.… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
To me, form is not something that you can plan beforehand, especially for a documentary. You can't write it or sketch it.… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
I am a Beyonce fan. I’m gonna watch her upcoming documentary because fortunately one of the TVs in our kitchen has closed… — Wendy Williams Copy Share Image
The trend for documentaries will never go away, because everybody wants to learn about the world. The world is awful in parts,… — Daisy Ridley Copy Share Image
'This is Spinal Tap' was a film we felt really had to be done like that. It wouldn't have worked any other… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
I've seen 'Endless Summer' more than any other documentary. I don't even like surfing, but I just love Bruce Brown's positivity. He's… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
It is clear from a common sense viewing of the program that coarse language is a part of the culture of the… — Jonathan Adelstein Copy Share Image
I began filmmaking in high school, at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. My first documentary was about a dysfunctional obese middle-aged… — Yony Leyser Copy Share Image
When you're shooting a feature that costs $200,000 a day with a crew of 250, you don't want accidents; you want to… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Ben Affleck exec-produced a documentary for HBO called 'Reporter' about my 2007 win-a-trip journey. I take the trip each year partly to… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
I'm still producing scripted features, and I am already working on a new documentary project with Norman Lear and Lara Bergthold. It… — Linda Goldstein Knowlton Copy Share Image
I was 13 years old when I first heard of the Sultan of Brunei. The absolute ruler of a tiny, oil-rich kingdom… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
So it is that one side effect of the HD revolution has been the gratifying and edifying return of the nature documentary… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to… — Mark Rydell Copy Share Image
I have wondered if I might be placed on a watch list of some sort by the government, though. I know that… — Marshall Curry Copy Share Image
When I hear the word 'documentary,' I don't think certain things should be left out. You've got to keep it 100 percent… — Phife Dawg Copy Share Image
I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up.… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
What is interesting to me about film, and documentary film in particular, is that I can write about these people, and you… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
As the world of independent feature filmmaking became increasingly commercialized by the mid-1990s, there was also a parallel, much more positive development:… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful documentary called 'A Room to Breathe,' where a school brought in a TM instructor, to try and establish… — James Redford Copy Share Image
We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
Nonfiction filmmakers were afflicted by two problems: one technical, the other spiritual. Technically, they did not have the equipment to do the… — Robert Drew Copy Share Image
“I’ve always been shocked by how many documentary producers and/or directors have a sleazy attitude to ethics. Stick around in this business… — Martin Belderson Copy Share Image
I left acting for a couple of years to found my company, Wayfarer, and the first project I did was this documentary… — Justin Baldoni Copy Share Image
I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
In documentary, you're directing with your camera even if you're not saying anything. So I was familiar with working with a person… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in Vietnam, feel it's a seminal event in our nation's history, and have explored it over the years… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow,… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
It's difficult to make movies. For me it was easier, as a refugee in Switzerland, to make documentary films, because I didn't… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
Post my parents' divorce, when I was 10, my mother, Deepa Motwane, took up a job as a line producer with documentary… — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
The reason I like tracking shots has to do more with a sense of real time than anything else. In 'Gravity,' the… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
When you make feature films, you have a script, which is a bible. The final result should be as it was written… — Danis Tanovic Copy Share Image
To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the… — Paul Rotha Copy Share Image
