Documentaries Quotes · Page 15

Since I come from documentary background and my father is a documentary filmmaker, for me the core essence of cinema is it's…

— Ivan Tverdovsky

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot…

— Jonathan Demme

I tend to gravitate towards sitcoms more and documentaries.

— Gareth Evans

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

— Leslie Cockburn

Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and…

— Allan Sekula

Theatre is filled w/ passion, risk and drama (as much behind-the-curtain as on stage), perfect ingredients for documentary storytelling.

— Dori Berinstein

Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.

— Marion Cotillard

There is so much investment in it of people's labor time that it will never make money. But there are other documentaries…

— Liz Garbus

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

— Skrillex

While it is increasingly possible for filmmakers to find an audience on their own (something that is particularly popular amongst documentary filmmakers)…

— Leanne Pooley

I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not…

— Chuck Klosterman

Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini…

— Fran Lebowitz

Independent documentary isn't beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. It's a pathway to renegade, independent…

— Josh Fox

I'm myself - knowing I'm doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can…

— Agnes Varda

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film.…

— Jonathan Demme

I feel like my own background in improv and doing documentaries makes me really comfortable with a situation where you're letting things…

— Seth Gordon

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

There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling.

— Owen Hart

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

— Dorothea Lange

I'm still producing scripted features, and I am already working on a new documentary project with Norman Lear and Lara Bergthold. It…

— Linda Goldstein Knowlton

As far as documentaries go, I believe unreservedly that they serve an important function in our culture. I'd love to be able…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the…

— 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

I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.

— Catherine Opie

You see reality TV and it's not reality TV. It's contrived and everything is plotted and scripted nearly. Documentaries are the same…

— Ricky Gervais