Documentary Quotes · Page 6

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

— Naomi Wolf

Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

— Gene Siskel

I had my own documentary that I filmed in D.C., which is where I'm from.

— Lexi Underwood

We should not confuse having a Flip camera with making a documentary.

— Kevin Macdonald

Joe Berlinger's documentary 'Whitey' is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can't take your eyes off the screen.

— Leonard Maltin

I always wanted to be in movies, but I never thought that in a million years there would be a documentary about…

— Gigi Gorgeous

When you come to documentaries, the stakes are too low for it to be cutthroat. You're all doing it for the right…

— Morgan Neville

In some ways, the documentary form is a kind of trap and so is societal norms.

— Robert Greene

When was the last time you saw a documentary that fundamentally changed the way you think? ...Pandora’s Promise is built around what…

— Owen Gleiberman

For me, the making of a documentary to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain was an intensely personal journey.…

— David Jason

I think most albums deserve a documentary because [an album] is a visual book. You don't have to read up on it…

— Nas

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give…

— Willie Dixon

Lack of diversity in Hollywood has been well documented thanks to #OscarSoWhite, but lack of diversity in the documentary world is less…

— Roger Ross Williams

Making a documentary on an issue that is not the easiest to have those conversations with people around you is something that…

— Zara McDermott

Everybody was apprehensive about a documentary. When we're all dead and gone, we don't want to leave something that is not going…

— Gina Schock

I don't know the facts surrounding Andrew Jarecki's work. I think it's a triumph of television. But it does raise troubling issues…

— Joe Berlinger

We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was…

— Ben Shahn

Twenty to thirty years ago, who was making documentary films? Nobody. Well, relatively few people. It was an art form that had…

— Errol Morris

I think it's important for History to keep experimenting with their shows. The more documentary-driven, the returning series, are the bottom of…

— Nancy Dubuc

What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of…

— Joseph Conrad

'Under the Skin' is handsome, in a dour way, but inert - a cunning experiment that died in the shooting or on…

— Richard Corliss

I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary…

— Dennis Muren

There's a real difference between a documentary that was all about facts and history and information. People just don't get as engaged…

— Abigail Disney

I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But…

— Agnes Varda

The part of television I like are things that have a documentary feel to them.

— John de Lancie

A lot of documentaries are biased - they leave out a lot of information.

— Tim Pool

Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

— Bruce Jackson

The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

— Dana Snyder

I'd seen Jose Padilha's 'Elite Squad 1' and '2', and I'd seen his documentary, 'Bus 174'.

— Boyd Holbrook

I feel like there's a lot of sympathy and camaraderie among documentary filmmakers.

— Morgan Neville

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

— Beau Bridges

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

— Mark Zupan

Like theatre, crafting a documentary film takes tremendous commitment, patience and passion.

— Dori Berinstein

Too many documentaries are intellectual exercises. I want documentaries to be alive.

— Davis Guggenheim

Most women I know are not actresses, but they work for the U.N. or are documentary filmmakers, anthropologists.

— Annabelle Wallis

I love Humphrey Jennings. People ask me who my favorite documentary maker is, and he's certainly in the top three.

— Kevin Macdonald

Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

— Frank Portman

The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.

— Joel Edgerton

Being in a worldwide documentary is not something you grow up thinking is going to happen to you, to be honest with…

— Paul Mullin

I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.

— Michael Rapaport