Documentaries Quotes · Page 6

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

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

— Robert Greene

Every year, I'm depressed that so few of the documentaries I've loved break through.

— David Edelstein

I love documentaries and I watch documentaries to no end.

— Michael Pena

I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.

— Dick Van Dyke

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

— Lloyd Kaufman

When critics talk about Three, they talk about 'Don't Tell the Bride' and 'Snog Marry Avoid?,' but we're also making important documentaries.…

— Stacey Dooley

We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect…

— Bjork

I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this…

— Barry Levinson

It's the best - combining the mediums of television, documentary, and books, to give you this transmedia experience for kids, for families,…

— Jeff Corwin

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as…

— Errol Morris

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in…

— Michael Apted

I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is…

— Forest Whitaker

I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's…

— Michael Moore

I've done experimental work, I've done real conventional documentaries that were very successful, like Las Madres that was nominated for an Academy…

— Lourdes Portillo

Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you're focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don't have, focusing…

— Ava DuVernay

Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt…

— Errol Morris

In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow,…

— Naomi Wolf

I don't like things about serial killers. There's so much serial killer information out there in documentaries constantly. A lot of it's…

— Stanley Tucci

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

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

— Kim Harrison

The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

— Dana Snyder

A lot of documentaries are biased - they leave out a lot of information.

— Tim Pool

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

— Gene Siskel

I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

— Jamie Bell

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

— Maria Thayer

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

— Dennis Hopper

There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling.

— Owen Hart

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

— Edward Norton

As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,.

— David Dixon

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

— Tim Hetherington

A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.

— Dorothy B. Porter

Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.

— Alex Gibney

Reality TV has ruined people's ability to watch documentary.

— David Farrier

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

— Werner Herzog

These people [the Christians] watched the Flintstones as if it were a documentary.

— Lewis Black

Documentaries sometimes can be shot over 10 years. You plan to stop in two, but you still gotta catch more.

— Gza