Documentaries Quotes · Page 5

I make documentaries. I attend film festivals. I don't have time to sit at cafes taking selfies.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.

— Walter Salles

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

— Noel Redding

I only ever wanted to do history, and make documentaries.

— David Olusoga

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

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

— Lasse Hallstrom

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

— Dorothea Lange

Documentary filmmaking has all the challenges and hardships of narrative filmmaking without any of the infrastructure or support. That's both a blessing…

— Brian Lindstrom

In all my documentaries I did all the camera work, but in fiction I didn't want to do it myself. I think…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and…

— Allan Sekula

2018 has been such a fantastic year for me: working on some hard-hitting documentaries, as well as 'Strictly,' has been a real…

— Stacey Dooley

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you…

— Henry Rollins

Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more…

— Marc Singer

I have always felt that a lot of the most interesting work, not just mine but other people's, falls into [the] nether…

— Alex Webb

I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling…

— Bill Burr

Voicing acting is usually fun. I'm very curious about that world. I'm a fan of documentaries, as well, and the voice kind…

— Marg Helgenberger

Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still…

— Andy Warhol

I've done documentaries and TV for six years but this was my first feature as director, so there were moments when I'd…

— Robert B. Weide

I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well…

— Peter Greenaway

There's a real difference between a documentary that was all about facts and history and information. People just don't get as engaged…

— Abigail Disney

When the American documentary filmmaker Donn Alan Pennebaker wanted to do a film on Dylan, Dylan asked him what he'd already done,…

— Raymond Depardon

Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James…

— Alex Gibney

Recently, while I was in England, I saw a documentary on the BBC about the border between India and Pakistan at Wagah.…

— Matthea Harvey

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

Now documentary evidence is acceptable. What does that mean? If you have documentary evidence that a person served as a guard in…

— Marvin Hier

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

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

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

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

— Peyton Reed

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

— Morgan Neville

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

— Gaspar Noe

I never say I make documentaries. I say I make television.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

I'm a big watcher of sports, consumer of sports content, so I love documentaries; I love the format.

— Peter Billingsley

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

— James Marsh

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