Documentary Quotes · Page 5

In a drama, the camera doesn't exist. In a documentary, it does.

— Gareth Edwards

Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.

— Nicholas Jarecki

Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

— Bela Fleck

I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

— Mary Ellen Mark

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

— Frederick Wiseman

We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary.

— Michael Moore

We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.

— Colin Mochrie

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm…

— Ruth Brown

Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to…

— Brian De Palma

I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then…

— Jack Handey

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a…

— Graciela Iturbide

If you're able to appeal to a broader market, you can make an entertaining narrative film. Whereas a documentary is something that…

— Nick Searcy

I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or quarter-fiction. The two should not go together. They…

— Elie Wiesel

I watched the Michael Jordan documentary and it made me hungry, it made me want to get the best out of everyone…

— Ollie Watkins

I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you…

— Jamie Johnson

The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or…

— Bruce Jackson

Independent documentary isn't beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. It's a pathway to renegade, independent…

— Josh Fox

But you have to understand what that really did is that it opened these DVDs to be sources of oral history instead…

— Nicholas Meyer

When I speak a serious subject in an informal and humorous way, it has bigger impact. So much so, when BBC made…

— Arunachalam Muruganantham

The documentary 'Certifiably Jonathan' has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It's got a great subject - the extraordinarily voluble…

— Elvis Mitchell

I watched the documentary 'I Hate Christian Laettner,' and I really hate Christian Laettner. It made me understand why everybody hates Christian…

— Seth Rollins

I'll let the record [Who You Selling For] speak for itself. I don't want to get too in-depth with my personal opinions…

— Taylor Momsen

I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,'…

— Harvey Weinstein

When I think about the new film, I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it…

— Robert Greene

When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary film was.

— Tony Kaye

“If everyone knows so much about it, why do they need to make a documentary?”

— Brigid Pasulka

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

— Catherine Opie

“Life is just a fifteen minute documentary if you keep erasing your past...”

— Gaurav Sharma

I've always been a fan of these travel shows and documentary series.

— W. Kamau Bell

I have a strong background in, like, documentary and current affairs. I did a good five years of just food programming.

— Adam Pearson

I would love to direct a documentary film if any good subject comes my way.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

— Skrillex

There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.

— Joshua Oppenheimer

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

— Tim Hetherington

Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.

— Alex Gibney

A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.

— Dorothy B. Porter

Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.

— Dana Spiotta

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

— Dennis Hopper

I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.

— Arnon Goldfinger

I would say one of my favorite books is 'Blood Brothers,' a documentary about Malcolm X.

— Tobias Harris