Documentaries Quotes · Page 14

I think I did fifteen long features and fifteen documentaries, or something like this, which is very little when you think of…

— Agnes Varda

As far as documentaries, 'Man on Wire,' 'Atomic Cafe,' 'Waltz With Bashir,' and 'Thin Blue Line' all offered me different perspectives to…

— Keith Maitland

People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in…

— Alex Hammond

I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've…

— George Saunders

Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has…

— Walker Evans

I have always felt that documentaries are an opportunity for me to witness a world that I know nothing about.

— Chris Hegedus

When I'm able to bring together the two worlds that I love so much - film and TV - is a documentary…

— Dori Berinstein

I do really enjoy watching documentaries because it's such an interesting foray into other people's lives.

— Ego Nwodim

I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because…

— Robert Greene

...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of…

— Jorge Amado

Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by…

— George Orwell

I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even…

— Gus Van Sant

Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I…

— Hiromu Arakawa

Research states that we have a two-week window to act after being inspired by an experience, before the brain is compelled to…

— Sam Branson

You could make a feature about the world of tickling. You could include female ticklers and you could find out why people…

— David Farrier

With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking…

— Paul Allen

I have made more documentaries in my time than I think I care to remember, though I am immensely proud of all…

— Charles Guggenheim

Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than…

— Roger Ebert

I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is…

— Haskell Wexler

I don't have a horror film in me just because I don't like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary…

— Todd Phillips

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

— Steven Sebring

With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of.

— Chris Shiflett

Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary…

— Jean-Luc Godard

Two remarkable men -- one young, one old -- fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On.

— Leonard Maltin

Investigative journalism has been relegated to a very, very tiny space in America. We don't really have much investigative journalism left. And…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

In documentary films, being able to be a storytelling and embrace film as an art form - while being very clearly connected…

— James Redford

Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle…

— Martha Rosler

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

— Martin Parr

I'm so proud of Jason's [Benjamin] work. I can say this and he can't, but there's no group of documentary subjects more…

— Lena Dunham

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film.…

— Jonathan Demme

I'm Ready to Die without a Reasonable Doubt Smoke Chronic and hit it Doggystyle before I go out. Until they sign my…

— Jayceon Terrell Taylor

Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the…

— Cilla Black

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

— Yahoo Serious

For a documentary it's so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film

— Adam McKay

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he…

— Alfred Hitchcock

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the…

— Steven Spielberg

I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema…

— Pamela Yates

I feel that cinema can't change society or bring a revolution. I'm also not sure of cinema as a medium of education.…

— Naseeruddin Shah

I suppose the primary intention of a documentary photographer is to document facts. My work often does this but it is not…

— Richard Billingham

I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot…

— Lasse Hallstrom