Documentary Quotes · Page 3

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

— Noel Redding

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

— Gaspar Noe

I spoke to my father about making a documentary on him. I have been seriously contemplating that.

— Arbaaz Khan

With a documentary, you can cut away, you can do jump cuts, cut to a photograph at any point to bridge two…

— Christopher Guest

By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than…

— Natalie Merchant

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

— Anna Deavere Smith

Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.

— Jason Reitman

I'm a fan of the fly-on-the-wall-type documentary, even if I'm not particularly interested in the location of the wall.

— Sarah Millican

I think you could very much make a 'Vanity Fair' in 2018, and I think it would probably look like a documentary.

— Tom Bateman

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

— Spike Jonze

I've been fairly private about my personal life. I've been approached by other companies to do a documentary about cosplay and about…

— Jessica Nigri

Especially when you talk about the power of documentary filmmaking, you can't really have a slant; financially, you can't have a slant…

— Amy J. Berg

Miramax didn't introduce the actors at any of the screenings. That's why a lot of people thought 'Kids' was a documentary. I…

— Leo Fitzpatrick

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

— John Wilson

Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17…

— W. G. Sebald

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

It took me little more than two years to complete my film, 'Woody Allen: A Documentary.' I conducted hours of filmed interviews…

— Robert B. Weide

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me. I like the 'let's forget our…

— Jack Brickhouse

With newspapers cutting foreign bureaus and budgets shrinking for long-form, investigative journalism, documentary filmmakers are often filling a void nowadays in the…

— Matthew Heineman

People watch more documentaries too now. These movies that would normally be shown in these little art houses, and unless you walked…

— Rosario Dawson

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

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

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

I didn't really know what to expect, but I thought there aren't a lot of rap groups that can say they have…

— Phife Dawg

Stories, as we're taught in journalism school early on, are told through people. Those stories make our documentaries powerful. You can explore…

— Soledad O'Brien

In college, I actually did some work on a documentary project talking to Vietnam vets about the images of war and how…

— Ron Livingston

There was no model how to make a documentary production company work. I figured it out as I went along.

— Morgan Neville

For a documentary it's so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film

— Adam McKay

One of the excuses used for not casting culturally different actors is authenticity. But theater is not documentary.

— Paterson Joseph

There's an amazing documentary, 'The Day After Trinity,' which is crazy good.

— John Benjamin Hickey

I like to watch movies - I just saw the documentary about Amy Winehouse, which was very good and emotional.

— Petra Kvitova

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

— Martin Parr

Tired of making money, I'm on a making history. Fuck how they feel I keep shit realer than a documentary.

— Wale

I have taken advantage of my husband, to the extent that I even got HBO to do a documentary with me.

— Laurie David

Kadamban' is not a documentary, although it's set in a tribal backdrop. There's dancing and a whole lot of entertainment.

— Catherine Tresa

With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of.

— Chris Shiflett

Two remarkable men -- one young, one old -- fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On.

— Leonard Maltin

As a documentary filmmaker, I couldn't afford to give my children the lifestyle I had in San Francisco growing up.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

People still come to Baltimore and say, "I didn't realize you made documentaries."

— John Waters

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

— Lauren Greenfield