Documentaries Quotes · Page 16

I think the beauty of documentary work is that it's a mystery - you never know where it's going to lead you.…

— Gail Levin

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just…

— Roger Ebert

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

— Werner Herzog

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

— Dana Snyder

I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.

— Michael Rapaport

Like theatre, crafting a documentary film takes tremendous commitment, patience and passion.

— Dori Berinstein

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

— Robert Zemeckis

I don't watch a lot of TV, but I watch cartoons. And documentaries.

— Britne Oldford

I never say I make documentaries. I say I make television.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

I love documentaries. I love the format. I've been doing them for a long time.

— Morgan Neville

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

— Gaspar Noe

I love those documentaries where everyone is fabulous and always perfect.

— Katy Perry

I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot…

— Lasse Hallstrom

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the…

— Steven Spielberg

I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema…

— Pamela Yates

With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of.

— Chris Shiflett

Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than…

— Roger Ebert

I don't have a horror film in me just because I don't like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary…

— Todd Phillips

The camera cannot leave the man, but the man can leave the camera. It's in the style of documentary where you make…

— Tobias Lindholm

As with the Trojans or the Tudors, there are many evergreen stories that we come back to again and again. I think…

— Lucy Worsley

I didn't feel physically sick. But mentally. My mind was twisting in so many ways. (...) We once saw a documentary on…

— Jay Asher

I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life…

— Steven Yeun

One of the most recent things we did [in Perceval Press] is a reissue of a fantastic documentary about Russian prison tattoo…

— Viggo Mortensen

I think everything can be painted because painting can change reality; but everything cannot be photographed and the photographer often comes home…

— Martine Franck

Critics can say what they like about the films, but very often, there's a certain expectation of documentaries that they're supposed to…

— Alex Gibney

He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He…

— Bob Colacello

From a young age, I wanted to play in the NBA. Oh well... It was when I was a senior in college…

— Steve James

In documentary we deal with the actual, and in one sense with the real. But the really real, if I may use…

— John Grierson

I tried [being a mogul]. It bores me. I don't really want to produce other people's movies. Because they're either grown-up filmmakers…

— James Cameron

It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

I love making documentaries. But I do like other factual entertainment as well, and I like doing the lighter stuff.

— Stacey Dooley

When the world is too much, I slip down a rabbit hole and end up watching documentaries on Henry VIII and his…

— Grace Dent

The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me.…

— Richard Ray Perez

I'm a documentary filmmaker, so often I'm in the position of talking to people who are sharing stories that are critically important…

— Kristi Jacobson

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

— Alice Walker

I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz],…

— Ben Stiller

Documentary filmmaking has all the challenges and hardships of narrative filmmaking without any of the infrastructure or support. That's both a blessing…

— Brian Lindstrom

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm…

— Ruth Brown

Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never…

— Joe Berlinger

When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do…

— Norman Jewison