Documentaries Quotes · Page 13

Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure.

— Wayne White

I have always felt that a lot of the most interesting work, not just mine but other people's, falls into [the] nether…

— Alex Webb

I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we…

— Peter Greenaway

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

— Walker Evans

Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called…

— Dustin Hoffman

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

The video for 'Whatever' is kind of a documentary in a way. It's showing that love can last. Not just in your…

— Jill Scott

I think the Republicans and conservatives generally were alienated by America's unsuccessful effort in Vietnam, and a lot of them, as Henry…

— William J. Clinton

They kept asking me over and over again whether I was having a romance with Hitler. Are you Hitler's girlfriend? I laughed…

— Leni Riefenstahl

I've always intended to eventually make films. I've always been very aware of tone and shots. But documentaries are a great proving…

— George Ratliff

I'm doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I've been…

— Ai Weiwei

When the American documentary filmmaker Donn Alan Pennebaker wanted to do a film on Dylan, Dylan asked him what he'd already done,…

— Raymond Depardon

Documentaries are my favorite thing, and the more depressing, the better.

— Maria Thayer

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

— Michael Moore

Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still…

— Andy Warhol

That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself.

— Kofi Siriboe

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

— Errol Morris

People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

— Laura Prepon

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

— Diane Cilento

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

— Martha Rosler

It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.

— Rick Springfield

I like to turn on the TV and watch whatever's on. Nick Kroll does that a lot. He doesn't watch important shows.…

— John Mulaney

Thhe essence of documentary filmmaking is how you manipulate the material to create an emotional impact, as opposed to just delivering information.

— Richard Ray Perez

We struck an unusual deal. I'll get to leave CNN with my catalog and documentaries. We were able to create a brand…

— Soledad O'Brien

The film [Dream of Life] came together when we started editing; it was organic, it became nonlinear and it was its own…

— Steven Sebring