Documentaries Quotes · Page 11

I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

If you care about the 2012 election and value the voices of regular Americans who lost hope in their hope and change…

— Jedediah Bila

I’ve long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special.

— Joe Morgenstern

When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on…

— Bruce Weber

Documentaries are unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to…

— Cosima Spender

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

— Leonard Maltin

I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is…

— Robert Redford

But if anyone so much as threatened them because of what Kaia had once done, she would turn the Slumber Party Massacre…

— Gena Showalter

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

Great," Shane said. "Look i'd rather not be on janitorial duty. I have allergies to cleaners." "And to cleaning," Michael said. "Look…

— Anonymous

Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. That…

— Charlie Brooker

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

— Gisele Freund

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

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

If you're a great documentary filmmaker, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're a great narrative filmmaker. There are fantastic documentary filmmakers that…

— Alexander Skarsgard

I started by studying Kiswahili to learn the dialect. Then, I studied tapes, documentaries, footage, and audio cassettes of Idi Amin's speeches.…

— Forest Whitaker

I made the transition to directing documentaries with the great help of my Co-Director on The World According to Sesame Street, Linda…

— Linda Goldstein Knowlton

If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a…

— Mark Duplass

A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever…

— Cate Blanchett

For some reason or other there was in me the desire to see the world clean and fresh and alive, as primitive…

— Aaron Siskind

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

— Dana Spiotta

'30 for 30s' are amazing. They're little documentaries and can be anywhere from half an hour to an hour-and-a-half - great sports stories.

— James Wolk

There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving.

— Debra Granik

In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role.

— Liz W. Garcia

I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone…

— Michael Palin

I'm not a fan of the Eagles, but I've watched their documentary numerous times and everyone who's watched it with me has…

— Bill Hader

I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things.

— Michael Apted

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

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There…

— Richard Donner

My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's…

— Andrew Davies

I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality -…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman…

— Rosie Perez

I loved watching documentaries and had wanted to try making one for years - I'd just put it off as other opportunities…

— Marshall Curry

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

I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.

— Matthew Gray Gubler

In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that…

— Garth Stein

There's a documentary film-maker called Werner Herzog, who's a German film-maker. I really dig his stuff, I'd love to chat with him.

— Finn Jones

It's not exactly an interview that's going on [in documentary]. I guess we do ask Edward Snowden some questions and we're recording…

— Melissa Leo

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in…

— Bradley Whitford