Documentary Quotes · Page 8

Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.

— Stephanie Coontz

My brother made a whole documentary of my life. It's a long story.

— DeSean Jackson

I was a documentary film-maker for 26 years before I became a full time actor.

— Suhasini Mulay

When you make a documentary, you have to adapt to what reality imposes upon you.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.

— Leslie Cockburn

The great documentary subjects find you, you don't really search for them.

— Jeremy Coon

There's a lot of documentaries out in the world; it sometimes seems as if there's no topic left!

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

As a kid, I watched every Madonna documentary and tour. I was obsessed with her - and with any pop star of…

— Kim Petras

Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all…

— Judy Parfitt

I'm always gonna be an actor, so I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do next. I would love to make…

— Michael Rapaport

I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that…

— Timothy Bottoms

When I graduated from Brown after majoring in women's studies, I made my first PBS documentary, 'Women of Substance.' My first feature…

— Rory Kennedy

Someone said something really interesting the other day they said, "Even documentaries aren't what happened," you know there's a huge jump between…

— Bruce Cohen

Unlike the book, with a documentary, you get a chance to show much more texture and color. Film gives you get a…

— Steve Stoute

Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold…

— Henry Rollins

Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has…

— Walker Evans

I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something…

— Spike Jonze

My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I…

— Brett Morgen

There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's…

— Errol Morris

Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has…

— Gisele Freund

Interestingly enough, I feel what the show [OJ Simpson] was able to accomplish in a really masterful way is that White America…

— Sterling K. Brown

I've always slightly harboured a dream of making a film, a documentary feature. Somehow I just got into a way of working…

— Louis Theroux

I really loved working on 'Laguna Beach,' and I'd do it all over again. I'm one of the luckiest kids in the…

— Stephen Colletti

Docs are more exhausting because of the physical labor that's required. Feature filmmaking is more exhausting because of politics and the bullshit.…

— George Hickenlooper

In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.

— Leslie Cockburn

I don't know if I'd mastered that documentary format, but I wanted to move on from it.

— Christopher Guest

As a documentary filmmaker, I try to be sensitive to my subjects.

— Keith Maitland

I'll sit down for 'Stranger Things' or 'The Handmaid's Tale' - or a really good documentary.

— Russell Howard

“The problem is we are not eating food anymore, we are eating food like products. (Hungry For Change Film)”

— Alejandro Junger

You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.

— Errol Morris

News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.

— Robert Greene

If you're not doing it for the right reasons, then you'd be dumb to be making documentaries.

— Morgan Neville

Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries.

— Pirjo Honkasalo

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

— Gus Van Sant

There's always the question when you're making a documentary if the talking heads will work.

— Heidi Ewing

In documentaries, you're confronted with reality; you can not manipulate or move it.

— Jean-Pierre Dardenne

I've been promoting the idea of a Jimmie Rodgers documentary for years.

— Marty Stuart

People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in…

— Alex Hammond

I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've…

— George Saunders

Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a…

— Mano Khalil