Documentaries Quotes · Page 16

I'm Min's fairy godmother, Charm Boy,' Liza said, frowning down at him. 'And if you don't give her a happily ever after,…

— Jennifer Crusie

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

— Jamie Bell

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

— Steven Spielberg

I've done several commercials and I've done voiceovers for documentaries.

— Jeff Bridges

Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which…

— Berenice Abbott

Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.

— David Riesman

When I watch my early documentaries, they're very eclectic. They don't follow any particular [pattern]. I would have gotten thrown out of…

— Pawel Pawlikowski

I've been in entertainment, politics, business, business coaching, public affairs, documentaries, programming, news, theater. So, there aren't many things I see that…

— Roger Ailes

I'm so proud of Jason's [Benjamin] work. I can say this and he can't, but there's no group of documentary subjects more…

— Lena Dunham

I'm a massive sucker for music documentaries.

— Stephen Mangan

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and…

— Abbas Kiarostami

After I got kicked out of CalArts, I moved to Lawrence Kansas where my sister lived. I began working on A William…

— Yony Leyser

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations.

— Jamie Wyeth

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

— Rosie Perez

First of all, being a woman is an incredible asset in many ways in making documentaries. You can be less intimidating, you…

— Ondi Timoner

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

— Anna Deavere Smith

There's a wide range today of documentaries on politics. The central mass of it is made by networks, and nothing's changed.

— Robert Drew

After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix…

— Kirk Hammett

When I left 'American Morning' in 2007, I'd focused on doing documentaries. But I thought 'Starting Point' was a great opportunity to…

— Soledad O'Brien

Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary…

— Jean-Luc Godard

One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star,…

— Brian Lindstrom

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

The film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth] opens with an Albanian blood feud and goes on to delve into,…

— Margaret Atwood

You can’t be serious,” Eve said. “Guys. People get eaten in places like this. At the very least, we get locked in…

— Rachel Caine

People are looking at possibly doing some documentaries and also we have the first four films that will stay out there for…

— Alex Kendrick