Documentary Quotes · Page 7

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

— Boyd Holbrook

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

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

— Dana Snyder

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

— Bruce Jackson

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

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

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

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 don't want to be on a soapbox, but I feel like a lot of documentary filmmakers are part of the ancient…

— Debra Granik

The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I…

— Criss Angel

I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well…

— Peter Greenaway

Above all, documentary must reflect the problems and realities of the present. It cannot regret the past; it is dangerous to prophesy…

— Paul Rotha

I've known Owen's father Ron [Suskind] for years, and this was based on his best-selling book ["Life, Animated"]. We worked together as…

— Roger Ross Williams

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us…

— Jeremy Northam

A documentary on MTV about the Dutch scene was what sparked it all. I saw guys like Tiesto and Ferry Corsten talking…

— Hardwell

I have a 22-year-old son, and when my son was born I made a decision to raise him. My husband and I…

— Maryse Alberti

I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the…

— Michel Gondry

Back in 2007, I met this white guy [director Peter Byck] with a lot of hair and a video camera, at a…

— Van Jones

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

— Tim Hetherington

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

— Dana Spiotta

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

How do you documentary a life when real life's getting more like fiction each day

— Sushan Sharma

A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.

— Roger Ebert

I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.

— Iris Apfel

'The Look' is my first documentary, and I enjoyed the freedom of working within a small team.

— Angelina Maccarone

I have watched a documentary on Caster Semenya. I am inspired by how she made a comeback.

— Dutee Chand

You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens.

— Ed Cunningham

Documentaries sometimes can be shot over 10 years. You plan to stop in two, but you still gotta catch more.

— Gza

A bad historian is even more dangerous than dead documentary wood.

— Norman Davies

I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.

— Robert Redford

I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.

— Kevin Macdonald

How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?

— Martha Rosler

When I look back at the way that I was in that documentary I cringe.

— Benjamin Cohen