Documentaries Quotes · Page 6

Stay humble to the craft and never forget how much it actually takes to be the main character of a documentary.

— Nicole Nielsen Horanyi

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

— Griffin Dunne

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me. I like the 'let's forget our…

— Jack Brickhouse

We've never had a situation where mass media has been so censored, at least in my lifetime. When I was younger, networks…

— Jello Biafra

I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a…

— Oprah Winfrey

I watched a TV documentary about how animals are farmed, killed and prepared for us to eat. I saw all those cows…

— David Haye

If you watch a stretch of TV for a few hours, there is a good chance you'll hear me on some commercial…

— Henry Rollins

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

— Lewis Black

My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet,…

— Michael Ian Black

The insanely gorgeous competition documentary on surfing obsession, Step Into Liquid — directed by Dana Brown and photographed by John-Paul Beeghly in…

— Elvis Mitchell

Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction…

— Jonathan Demme

A picture that is ghostly and silent can be more eloquent and less clichéd than a noisier photo-journalistic approach and I have…

— Simon Norfolk

The documentary we are working on is about my mother, Bev Umehara, for whom our film company, Bev's Girl Films, is named…

— Garth Kravits

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

— Nas

The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10…

— Rainn Wilson

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

— Method Man

Sometimes my fashion pictures can look a little bit like documentary style pictures. So having a camera in my hand was normal.

— Steven Sebring

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

— Leos Carax

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

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

— David Edelstein

You know so many documentaries now are very carefully scripted before you start, and then people are sort of put in chairs…

— Nick Broomfield

I'm driving down the freeway the other day, on my way to Knott's Scary Farm probably, and I hear this report on…

— Cassandra Peterson

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary…

— Howard Shore

I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I…

— Errol Morris

I came from a very avant-garde documentary kind of film making world. I like cinema verité, documentaries. I liked non-story, non-character tone…

— George Lucas