Documentaries Quotes · Page 7

I love those documentaries where everyone is fabulous and always perfect.

— Katy Perry

I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.

— Robert Redford

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

— Michael Rapaport

A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.

— Roger Ebert

I've done several commercials and I've done voiceovers for documentaries.

— Jeff Bridges

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

— James Marsh

I'm a big watcher of sports, consumer of sports content, so I love documentaries; I love the format.

— Peter Billingsley

I never say I make documentaries. I say I make television.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

— Jonathan Demme

I love to travel, which is sort of why I do documentaries and why I'm in this whole world of movies -…

— Fisher Stevens

When I left 'American Morning' in 2007, I'd focused on doing documentaries. But I thought 'Starting Point' was a great opportunity to…

— Soledad O'Brien

My time in documentaries was very educating, in terms of life experience as well as the filmmaking side of it.

— Roger Deakins

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

— Diane Cilento

I've always intended to eventually make films. I've always been very aware of tone and shots. But documentaries are a great proving…

— George Ratliff

Because in this business, as you know, you don't get that many bites at the apple, so I make documentaries for HBO…

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about…

— Clive James

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

My background is sociology. Combined with my graphic approach, if I could do some film projects, I think I'd be very good…

— David Carson

I love documentaries. I love the format. I've been doing them for a long time.

— Morgan Neville

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

— Gaspar Noe

I came from a background of directing behind-the-scenes documentaries.

— Peyton Reed

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

— Dorothea Lange

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

— Lasse Hallstrom

Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.

— David Riesman

Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.

— Stephanie Coontz

I only ever wanted to do history, and make documentaries.

— David Olusoga

My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.

— Noel Redding

I always thought of documentaries as films through which you find your voice as a narrator.

— Diego Luna

I don't watch a lot of TV, but I watch cartoons. And documentaries.

— Britne Oldford

We do documentaries on the history of cinema in between our feature films.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

The great documentary subjects find you, you don't really search for them.

— Jeremy Coon

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

— Jason Silva

I tend to gravitate towards sitcoms more and documentaries.

— Gareth Evans

There's a lot of documentaries out in the world; it sometimes seems as if there's no topic left!

— Alexandra C. Pelosi