Documentaries Quotes · Page 20

I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind…

— Sebastiao Salgado

Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me.

— Michael Moore

It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a…

— Robert Greene

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

— Lasse Hallstrom

Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm…

— Lucy Walker

Voicing acting is usually fun. I'm very curious about that world. I'm a fan of documentaries, as well, and the voice kind…

— Marg Helgenberger

I want to start producing the documentaries and programmes I'm involved with.

— Zara McDermott

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

— Martha Rosler

For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux…

— Eugene Atget

I'm strictly a movie person. I mean, I watch the HBO documentaries and Netflix.

— Maria Thayer

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

It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film"…

— Werner Herzog

I love going on BBC6 and BBC7 and listening to documentaries.

— Burn Gorman

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

Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.

— Dana Spiotta

I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck,…

— Richard Donner

When I hear the word 'documentary,' I don't think certain things should be left out. You've got to keep it 100 percent…

— Phife Dawg

I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles…

— Gary Paulsen

I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.

— Billy Connolly

Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.

— Gus Van Sant

In some ways, the documentary form is a kind of trap and so is societal norms.

— Robert Greene

I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Back in 2007, I met this white guy [director Peter Byck] with a lot of hair and a video camera, at a…

— Van Jones

It is clear from a common sense viewing of the program that coarse language is a part of the culture of the…

— Jonathan Adelstein