I watch mostly documentaries and things that aren't remotely funny. — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all. — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
I want to start producing the documentaries and programmes I'm involved with. — Zara McDermott Copy Share Image
I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films. — Walter Salles Copy Share Image
Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same. — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is. — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens. — Ed Cunningham Copy Share Image
You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a… — Thom Powers Copy Share Image
Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and… — Robin Tunney Copy Share Image
I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding… — Benjamin Avila Copy Share Image
It's not exactly an interview that's going on [in documentary]. I guess we do ask Edward Snowden some questions and we're recording… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way. — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
There's a documentary film-maker called Werner Herzog, who's a German film-maker. I really dig his stuff, I'd love to chat with him. — Finn Jones Copy Share Image
I hadn't seen 'The Devils' until about two months before we started writing 'Apostle.' It would always play in documentaries about extreme… — Gareth Evans Copy Share Image
Since I come from documentary background and my father is a documentary filmmaker, for me the core essence of cinema is it's… — Ivan Tverdovsky Copy Share Image
We believed - and I personally still believe - that the so called Voice of God narration, ubiquitous in documentaries destined for… — Jayne Loader Copy Share Image
I'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary,… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
From film to film, even documentaries, I was learning the medium and learning how to bring form into some kind of relationship… — Pawel Pawlikowski Copy Share Image
Making an independent documentary film is so hard that usually, the usual model is that your film becomes a model for advocacy,… — Tim Hetherington Copy Share Image
I wasn't terribly familiar. I had read some of the headlines but didn't quite understand difference between WikiLeaks...[Edward] Snowden. And then watching… — Scott Eastwood Copy Share Image
Dice Rules is one of the most appalling movies I have ever seen. It could not be more damaging to the career… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
We're bombarded with liberal propaganda 24/7, from the early morning shows, Hollywood movies, documentaries and sitcoms, all major newspapers, fashion magazines, the… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
The documentary we are working on is about my mother, Bev Umehara, for whom our film company, Bev's Girl Films, is named… — Garth Kravits Copy Share Image
Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever. — Leos Carax Copy Share Image
I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion. — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
I am particularly pleased to see that there are so many women working in documentary film. — Chris Hegedus Copy Share Image
I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them. — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive. — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Whenever I watch a documentary about the space, I find the news in the world very funny and dull! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
With documentaries, you go in with an open-mind but knowing what you want. — Chris Metzler Copy Share Image
![“It's not exactly an interview that's going on [in documentary]. I guess we do ask Edward Snowden some questions and we're recording him answering them and so on like that.” quote by Melissa Leo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dee/melissa-leo-9231_asks_it-s-not-exactly-an-interview-that-s-goi_1084250.jpg)
![“I wasn't terribly familiar. I had read some of the headlines but didn't quite understand difference between WikiLeaks...[Edward] Snowden. And then watching the documentary, working on the film, you got to see his personal journey through this and sort of understand more about what he went through.” quote by Scott Eastwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fa/scott-eastwood-8417_differences_i-wasn-t-terribly-familiar-i-had-read-so_1186806.jpg)
