Documentaries Quotes · Page 2

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

— Dorothea Lange

I hate making TV documentaries.

— Jamie Oliver

A good film is also a documentary

— Eric Rohmer

I love to watch documentaries on The History Channel and TLC.

— Nina Tassler

It's a big surprise to me that I make Radio 4 documentaries. That was never the plan.

— Tim Key

I love every single genre from documentaries, horror, comedy, drama, '80s, classic, I have it all.

— Lydia Hearst

Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.

— Jason Reitman

When I go to the DVD shop, I mostly buy documentaries because you learn a lot from documentaries.

— Gaspar Noe

No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.

— Walter Salles

I make documentaries. I attend film festivals. I don't have time to sit at cafes taking selfies.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

I want to do a documentary about strippers, 'cause it's a moneymaker.

— Method Man

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 Ready to Die without a Reasonable Doubt Smoke Chronic and hit it Doggystyle before I go out. Until they sign my…

— Jayceon Terrell Taylor

Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the…

— Cilla Black

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

— Yahoo Serious

In documentary films, being able to be a storytelling and embrace film as an art form - while being very clearly connected…

— James Redford

Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle…

— Martha Rosler

I suppose the primary intention of a documentary photographer is to document facts. My work often does this but it is not…

— Richard Billingham

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

— Alex Kendrick

I make films about people with disabilities as well and I think this question is more relevant in regards to these documentaries…

— Arthur Bradford

I'll let the record [Who You Selling For] speak for itself. I don't want to get too in-depth with my personal opinions…

— Taylor Momsen

Alejandro Amenabar is a different kind of director than I lot of the directors I've asked for. He really asks you to…

— Ethan Hawke

If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a…

— Salman Rushdie

Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were…

— Sally Mann

My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If…

— John Cleese

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

— Jay Asher

Former Vice President Al Gore starring in a new documentary about global warming. I believe it's called [Leno snores]. ... The film…

— Jay Leno

I think the Republicans and conservatives generally were alienated by America's unsuccessful effort in Vietnam, and a lot of them, as Henry…

— William J. Clinton

For some reason at Sundance, more than other festivals that I'm aware of, you find filmmakers rushing to screen works that sometimes…

— Thom Powers

There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II.…

— Steven Spielberg

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

Recently, while I was in England, I saw a documentary on the BBC about the border between India and Pakistan at Wagah.…

— Matthea Harvey

Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James…

— Alex Gibney

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

— Anna Deavere Smith

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

— Roger Ross Williams

Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it.

— Ice T

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

— Jamie Bell

People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

— Laura Prepon