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 make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's…

— Christopher Koch

It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a…

— Robert Greene

Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini…

— Fran Lebowitz

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

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

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

When I watch my early documentaries, they're very eclectic. They don't follow any particular [pattern]. I would have gotten thrown out of…

— Pawel Pawlikowski

The message films that try to be message films always fail. Likewise with documentaries. The documentaries that work best are the ones…

— Alex Gibney

I'm Min's fairy godmother, Charm Boy,' Liza said, frowning down at him. 'And if you don't give her a happily ever after,…

— Jennifer Crusie

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest…

— Kurt Cobain

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

They kept asking me over and over again whether I was having a romance with Hitler. Are you Hitler's girlfriend? I laughed…

— Leni Riefenstahl

The older I've gotten, the more I've gotten a little precious about music-related films as it comes to biopics. I kind of…

— Elijah Wood

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

— Morgan Neville

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

— Peyton Reed

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

Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.

— Marion Cotillard

Documentaries are my favorite thing, and the more depressing, the better.

— Maria Thayer