Documentaries Quotes · Page 13

You made a point about proof. In this sort of history we do nt have proof... Yet... the incontrovertibility of the evidence…

— Robert Conquest

I think making a documentary gets you out and about more, with people. With stand-up, you're talking at people. With documentaries you're…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

— Mark Zupan

I'm a huge fan of the Ken Burns documentary style, big time. I love documentaries full stop. I'm a big documentary fan.…

— Phil Morris

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

Documentaries are inherently instinctual; you're constantly moment to moment, determining what the best place for the camera is to tell the story,…

— Rachel Morrison

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations.

— Jamie Wyeth

When I made the switch from strictly entertainment news to more of these natural world documentaries, it's really been all about wanting…

— Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If…

— John Cleese

I'll let the record [Who You Selling For] speak for itself. I don't want to get too in-depth with my personal opinions…

— Taylor Momsen

Alejandro Amenabar is a different kind of director than I lot of the directors I've asked for. He really asks you to…

— Ethan Hawke

People are looking at possibly doing some documentaries and also we have the first four films that will stay out there for…

— Alex Kendrick

I make films about people with disabilities as well and I think this question is more relevant in regards to these documentaries…

— Arthur Bradford

Independent documentary isn't beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. It's a pathway to renegade, independent…

— Josh Fox

There's a plethora of wonderful documentaries. I made a point of not looking at anyone else's portrayal of Henry because I think…

— Eric Bana

Twenty to thirty years ago, who was making documentary films? Nobody. Well, relatively few people. It was an art form that had…

— Errol Morris

When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not…

— Pamela Yates

I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the…

— Saffron Burrows

People look to cinema to spread the word and to tell these wonderful, outrageous stories or true-to-life documentaries.

— Henry Golding

Growing up I used to watch documentaries on people like Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson. I've grown up fascinated with legends and legacies.

— Bugzy Malone

Paradoxically, in the field being a woman actually helps you: people often feel more comfortable talking to women, which is key in…

— Cosima Spender

Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.

— Pamela Yates

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

— Steven Spielberg

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

— Leslie Cockburn

I'd really likely to shoot wildlife documentaries. I watched so many of those as a child, and I'm quite into wildlife and…

— Asa Butterfield

It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film"…

— Werner Herzog

I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.

— Joan Fontcuberta

The thing that's made me open my eyes to what was happening to the environment and climate was films and documentaries.

— Greta Thunburg

Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all…

— Zadie Smith

I would make documentaries if it was a worthy cause. I have a lot of respect for people who put themselves in…

— Eliot Sumner

Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was…

— Daniel Berrigan

As much as I like Michael Moore - and I'm on the same political side as him - I think his documentaries…

— Rod Lurie

My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's…

— Andrew Davies

I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality -…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman…

— Rosie Perez

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There…

— Richard Donner

There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.

— Joshua Oppenheimer

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

— Skrillex

I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things.

— Michael Apted

I'm not a fan of the Eagles, but I've watched their documentary numerous times and everyone who's watched it with me has…

— Bill Hader