I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been… — Sacha Baron Cohen Copy Share Image
In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Someone said something really interesting the other day they said, "Even documentaries aren't what happened," you know there's a huge jump between… — Bruce Cohen Copy Share Image
"Plaza de la Soledad" is a documentary about Carmen, Lety, Raquel and Esther, four strong women - middle-aged and older - who… — Maya Goded Copy Share Image
Unlike the book, with a documentary, you get a chance to show much more texture and color. Film gives you get a… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
The documentaries are one thing - I was highlighting someone else's work, someone else's genius. Once I had to find my own… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where… — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
Along with the rest of the establishment, the BBC which, to be fair, can make superb documentaries - seems to have swallowed… — Melanie Phillips Copy Share Image
It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
People are beginning to realize that it's important that we see animals in a natural state - but through film, through video,… — Montel Williams Copy Share Image
The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
I think there have been so many documentaries about pop stars, made by pop stars. It's a new phenomenon. People making these… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
I remember somebody saying something to me about Frost/Nixon, when Anthony Hopkins does his famous speech, and the difference in the way… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
While it is increasingly possible for filmmakers to find an audience on their own (something that is particularly popular amongst documentary filmmakers)… — Leanne Pooley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
This whole business of documentary being a second-class citizen is bullshit. A documentary can be as interesting, as dramatic, as sad, as… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
The message films that try to be message films always fail. Likewise with documentaries. The documentaries that work best are the ones… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I could sit and watch nature documentaries with Jenks and the kids the rest of the night if I wanted. And trust… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Non-fiction or documentaries can tell any kind of a story because they don't have to adhere to the rules of what's possible.… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
I've been wanting to do a documentary on the true heart of the groupie ever since I was one. The groupie is… — Pamela Des Barres Copy Share Image
I think most albums deserve a documentary because [an album] is a visual book. You don't have to read up on it… — Nas Copy Share Image
When was the last time you saw a documentary that fundamentally changed the way you think? ...Pandora’s Promise is built around what… — Owen Gleiberman Copy Share Image
A lot of documentaries have been made very quickly, but I think they're like frogs in an ecosystem: They're harbingers. Film is… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
![“You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has row after row of people bending over and digging out carrots - that can be very tedious. And so it's only once in a while that something happens that is worth doing.” quote by Imogen Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6c/imogen-cunningham-15682_bending_you-know-a-documentary-is-only-interesti_2195096.png)
![“I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready.” quote by Oprah Winfrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b2/oprah-winfrey-186_book_i-tried-documentaries-it-wasn-t-the-time_590976.png)
![“When I watch my early documentaries, they're very eclectic. They don't follow any particular [pattern]. I would have gotten thrown out of film school because I didn't. I was just putting them together somehow as the spirit moved me, following my nose, thinking I was brilliant.” quote by Pawel Pawlikowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b0/pawel-pawlikowski-37447_brilliant_when-i-watch-my-early-documentaries-they_1874962.jpg)
![“I think most albums deserve a documentary because [an album] is a visual book. You don't have to read up on it because you can listen and watch the whole story. I would love to see lots of albums [become films.]” quote by Nas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cc/nas-650_albums_i-think-most-albums-deserve-a-documentar_653859.png)
