Documentaries Quotes · Page 5

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

— Adam Curtis

Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.

— Terry Zwigoff

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

— Mike Mills

I am particularly pleased to see that there are so many women working in documentary film.

— Chris Hegedus

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

— Don DeLillo

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

— Leos Carax

Sound is the most important thing on any film, especially documentaries.

— Matthew Heineman

I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.

— Meshell Ndegeocello

Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to…

— Brian De Palma

I think most albums deserve a documentary because [an album] is a visual book. You don't have to read up on it…

— Nas

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

— Richard Donner

I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or quarter-fiction. The two should not go together. They…

— Elie Wiesel

By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than…

— Natalie Merchant

I have tried reading the Bible but that's a tough read there. I watch a lot of religious documentaries. I have a…

— Jim Jefferies

Theatre is filled w/ passion, risk and drama (as much behind-the-curtain as on stage), perfect ingredients for documentary storytelling.

— Dori Berinstein

There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary,…

— Lloyd Kaufman

He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He…

— Bob Colacello

People watch more documentaries too now. These movies that would normally be shown in these little art houses, and unless you walked…

— Rosario Dawson

I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It…

— Boris Johnson

A lot of documentaries have been made very quickly, but I think they're like frogs in an ecosystem: They're harbingers. Film is…

— Alexander Payne

I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated…

— Scott Ritter

When was the last time you saw a documentary that fundamentally changed the way you think? ...Pandora’s Promise is built around what…

— Owen Gleiberman

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

Non-fiction or documentaries can tell any kind of a story because they don't have to adhere to the rules of what's possible.…

— Morgan Neville

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just…

— Roger Ebert

You try to do as much as you can on set because practical looks cool and practical looks great. Until you get…

— Kimberly Peirce

You make documentaries because you love doing it; it's the only sane reason to make documentaries.

— Morgan Neville

I'd like to make documentaries. Way-out documentaries. I'd like to do one on a tour of the U.S.

— Dave Clark

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

— Robert Zemeckis

Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

— Barbara Kopple

I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.

— Michael Rapaport

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

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

— A. J. Cook

I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together. Riveting!

— Stewart Francis

Like theatre, crafting a documentary film takes tremendous commitment, patience and passion.

— Dori Berinstein

I watch mostly documentaries and things that aren't remotely funny.

— Christopher Guest

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

— W. Eugene Smith

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

— Maria Thayer

Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

— Frank Portman

Too many documentaries are intellectual exercises. I want documentaries to be alive.

— Davis Guggenheim