Documentary Quotes · Page 4

If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.

— Wagner Moura

I am particularly pleased to see that there are so many women working in documentary film.

— Chris Hegedus

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

— Mike Mills

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

— Leos Carax

Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.

— Adam Curtis

Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling.

— Pamela Yates

Singing for a documentary that benefits the underprivileged remains one of my biggest dreams.

— Arijit Singh

Stay humble to the craft and never forget how much it actually takes to be the main character of a documentary.

— Nicole Nielsen Horanyi

I agreed to film after my rookie year in Golden State. I was more used to cameras and felt that my journey…

— Jeremy Lin

There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary,…

— Lloyd Kaufman

When critics talk about Three, they talk about 'Don't Tell the Bride' and 'Snog Marry Avoid?,' but we're also making important documentaries.…

— Stacey Dooley

A documentary film is a great way of helping people understand because, somehow, when one is able to see the people involved,…

— Lawrence Wright

I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought there was no way…

— Rory Kennedy

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in…

— Michael Apted

This whole business of documentary being a second-class citizen is bullshit. A documentary can be as interesting, as dramatic, as sad, as…

— Frederick Wiseman

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as…

— Errol Morris

Critics can say what they like about the films, but very often, there's a certain expectation of documentaries that they're supposed to…

— Alex Gibney

Documentary film is the one place that our people can speak for themselves. I feel that the documentaries that I've been working…

— Alanis Obomsawin

My obsession with documentary coincided with this job I had where I worked for a private investigator for about a year after…

— John Wilson

People who make documentaries have to be faithful to the facts. But when you are making a drama, a fiction based on…

— Milos Forman

In Austin, you work in anything that will pay and a lot of things that don't. The documentary filmmaker may also be…

— Keith Maitland

It has taken a lot of persuasion for me to take part in an official documentary about 'Only Fools and Horses.' But,…

— David Jason

I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we…

— Peter Greenaway

I received a phone call from my mother, and it was so complicated and involved, and it reminded me of just how…

— Lourdes Portillo

The first thing that I ever made was a documentary that I shot... in downtown L.A. about a group of homeless people.

— Pamela Adlon

When I'm filming a documentary, I feel like I should be the straight man, watching with a raised eyebrow.

— Jon Richardson

Documentary makers use other people's lives as their raw material, and that is morally indefensible.

— Kevin Macdonald

I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all.

— Brian Lindstrom

I have read up about the history of Wimbledon and watched the 'Crazy Gang' documentary on BT Sport.

— Aaron Ramsdale

I'm a documentary filmmaker, I know what it means to craft a story, especially when you've shot a lot of material.

— Max Joseph

I feel like directorial teams aren't quite as uncommon in documentary.

— Anna Boden

Making a documentary about my hometown was always going to be the most difficult topic I had ever covered! No question.

— Stacey Dooley

All too often, white documentary filmmakers are the ones telling the stories of people of color.

— Roger Ross Williams

I love documentaries. My problem is when the filmmaker becomes the star.

— Christopher Guest

I watched a documentary called 'Plastic Oceans' on Netflix, and it was an eye-opener for me.

— Kevin Anderson

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

— Alice Walker

In film, I believe things should either be documentary or drama.

— Kevin Macdonald

The great thing about 'The Exorcist' is it's dead serious horror. No comedy, no self-reference, it's a documentary style.

— Leigh Whannell

“The best documentaries are independent. They don’t exist to serve interests, philanthropic or otherwise.”

— Nick Fraser

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

— Sheila Nevins