Documentaries Quotes · Page 19

I've been doing documentaries for about 25 years and want to continue to do that, but I love the idea of working…

— Rory Kennedy

I like giving music-themed gifts. I've given a couple of music documentaries to boys. Especially if they don't have the same taste…

— Bella Heathcote

I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling…

— Bill Burr

I’ve long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special.

— Joe Morgenstern

And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.

— Michael Patrick Jann

I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on Head Start, on poverty.…

— Joan Ganz Cooney

I use people's real voices because I want realism. So often I mention the actors' physicality because I want it to be…

— Ricky Gervais

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.

— Betty Dodson

It's impossible for one or two people to go out and shoot a narrative film; you need to have a cast, the…

— Jeremy Coon

At the beginning of my career, I shot a lot more documentaries because I liked the adventure, and probably also because it…

— Maryse Alberti

[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by…

— Pierre Mac Orlan

I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding…

— Benjamin Avila

Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

— Gene Siskel

I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that…

— Ellen DeGeneres

As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc.," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are…

— Anthony Bourdain

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

In a one-hour documentary, you can tell maybe ten stories. That's how the documentary is structured. I wrote to forty of the…

— Henry Louis Gates

I could sit and watch nature documentaries with Jenks and the kids the rest of the night if I wanted. And trust…

— Kim Harrison

I watched a documentary about Freedom Riders. One young woman told her parents, 'I'm going to leave college to ride and represent…

— Sandra Bullock

If you care about the 2012 election and value the voices of regular Americans who lost hope in their hope and change…

— Jedediah Bila

I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.

— Maria Thayer

I have made more documentaries in my time than I think I care to remember, though I am immensely proud of all…

— Charles Guggenheim

I don't think you make documentary films to get your country house. If you're trying to gamble on that, you've very foolish.

— Liz Garbus

People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in…

— Alex Hammond

When you come to documentaries, the stakes are too low for it to be cutthroat. You're all doing it for the right…

— Morgan Neville