Documentaries Quotes · Page 17

I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to…

— Shawn Ryan

I've been wanting to do a documentary on the true heart of the groupie ever since I was one. The groupie is…

— Pamela Des Barres

Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried…

— Wavy Gravy

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

— Naomi Wolf

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

No one likes documentaries.

— Alex Gibney

I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30…

— Bahman Ghobadi

I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all.

— Brian Lindstrom

I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is…

— Haskell Wexler

For me, as a documentary filmmaker, I'm interested in telling stories of real people whose experiences tell us something about ourselves or…

— Kristi Jacobson

Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation…

— Hedi Slimane

I wasn't really that informed about the two-year-old. Oh, I'd read about them, and occasionally I'd see documentaries on the Discovery Channel…

— Ray Romano

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated,…

— Werner Herzog

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he…

— Alfred Hitchcock

I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed…

— Brittany Murphy

I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.

— Joan Fontcuberta

Of course, the main reason is the change of law in the way Germany has brought Nazi war criminals to trial. The…

— Marvin Hier

The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form,…

— Paul Strand

I love documentaries and I watch documentaries to no end.

— Michael Pena

I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.

— A. J. Cook

I live in New York City, and I'm making huge action movies. The people that make huge action movies live in L.A.,…

— Doug Liman

I like documentaries; I watch the Soccer Channel; I like the Military Channel.

— Steve Jones

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

— Gus Van Sant

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest…

— Kurt Cobain

I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because…

— Robert Greene