Documentaries Quotes · Page 4

So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.

— Michael Apted

I think books make you think in a different way than movies and documentaries.

— MO

We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary.

— Michael Moore

I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

— Mary Ellen Mark

Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

— Bela Fleck

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

— Frederick Wiseman

With documentaries, you go in with an open-mind but knowing what you want.

— Chris Metzler

I love documentaries. My problem is when the filmmaker becomes the star.

— Christopher Guest

I don't know the facts surrounding Andrew Jarecki's work. I think it's a triumph of television. But it does raise troubling issues…

— Joe Berlinger

I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by…

— Clifton Collins, Jr

There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is…

— Amos Oz

Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.

— Michael Moore

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a…

— Graciela Iturbide

I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then…

— Jack Handey

I'm interested in a realization that's hiding beneath the surface, and maybe that's what documentaries can do best, is to try to…

— Davis Guggenheim

People should genuinely care about stand-up. I'm not doing this just so I can do x, y, and z on TV. It's…

— Tom Rosenthal

Stories, as we're taught in journalism school early on, are told through people. Those stories make our documentaries powerful. You can explore…

— Soledad O'Brien

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

— Maryse Alberti

I feel like my own background in improv and doing documentaries makes me really comfortable with a situation where you're letting things…

— Seth Gordon

Music documentaries are hard to tell, but I think they're an amazing vehicle to look at racism, our attitude to sex, the…

— Nick Broomfield

I'm in school every day. It depends on what it is that you do with all that free time when I'm not…

— MC Lyte

Critics can say what they like about the films, but very often, there's a certain expectation of documentaries that they're supposed to…

— Alex Gibney

Documentary film is the one place that our people can speak for themselves. I feel that the documentaries that I've been working…

— Alanis Obomsawin

I think the sheer hell of trying to get a film made; I don't know if it would ultimately be worth it.…

— Derren Brown

We have two boys. After George Zimmerman was found not guilty of killing Trayvon Martin, we had to explain to our older…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I tried [being a mogul]. It bores me. I don't really want to produce other people's movies. Because they're either grown-up filmmakers…

— James Cameron

To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the…

— Paul Rotha

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

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I know a lot of other actors that don't like to look at other references to their characters and things. But I…

— Christian Bale

Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through…

— Taryn Simon

I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written…

— Ben Stiller

In an old model, the way a film would imprint itself on the public's consciousness is to get a theatrical run. But…

— Thom Powers

“The best documentaries are independent. They don’t exist to serve interests, philanthropic or otherwise.”

— Nick Fraser

Whenever I watch a documentary about the space, I find the news in the world very funny and dull!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

— Sheila Nevins

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

— Burn Gorman

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

— Zara McDermott

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

— Walter Salles

Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.

— Adam Curtis