Documentaries Quotes · Page 3

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

— Robert Redford

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

— Katy Perry

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

— James Marsh

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

— Michael Rapaport

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

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Roger Ebert

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

— Gaspar Noe

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

— Morgan Neville

I had worked in fiction a lot before I started making documentaries, but when I was around 32 or 33-years-old I suddenly…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more…

— Dieter Roth

I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself…

— Felix Dennis

I wouldn't call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers. And I do watch TV,…

— Adora Svitak

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

— Gus Van Sant

At home, I watch fights and documentaries - that's it. If it's not about the birth and death of stars, 'Frozen Planet,'…

— Ronda Rousey

I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.

— Tatjana Patitz

I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.

— Hannah Gadsby

One of the differences between real documentaries and reality television, besides the artificial construct of reality television, is that the people who…

— Steve James

Immigration is not an issue that I read about in the newspaper or watch a documentary on PBS or CNN. It's an…

— Marco Rubio

The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to…

— Mark Rydell

A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any of the…

— Mary Ellen Mark

Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the…

— Ann Macbeth

["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The…

— Hunter S. Thompson

There's been a vacuum with movies that people can relate to. There's been a paucity of dramas that people can relate to.…

— George Hickenlooper

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and…

— William Shatner

When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. It should be documentary style, because documentary…

— Walker Evans

You know so many documentaries now are very carefully scripted before you start, and then people are sort of put in chairs…

— Nick Broomfield

The film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth] opens with an Albanian blood feud and goes on to delve into,…

— Margaret Atwood

There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II.…

— Steven Spielberg

Do I believe the execution will work out? Les Moonves said yes to Survivor based partly upon my show Eco-Challenge. He liked…

— Scott Raab

For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux…

— Eugene Atget

I think the beauty of documentary work is that it's a mystery - you never know where it's going to lead you.…

— Gail Levin

I'm a curious guy. I can't turn away from an investigative story, when it comes to the forensic analysis. I've done 33…

— James Cameron

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

— Peyton Reed

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 only ever wanted to do history, and make documentaries.

— David Olusoga

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

— Noel Redding

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

— Dorothea Lange

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

— Lasse Hallstrom

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

— Stephanie Coontz