Documentaries Quotes · Page 7

I know it might be kind of ironic, but I like funny films and documentaries.

— Danny Lloyd

Too many documentaries are intellectual exercises. I want documentaries to be alive.

— Davis Guggenheim

Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

— Frank Portman

I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.

— Maria Thayer

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

— W. Eugene Smith

I watch mostly documentaries and things that aren't remotely funny.

— Christopher Guest

I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together. Riveting!

— Stewart Francis

Like theatre, crafting a documentary film takes tremendous commitment, patience and passion.

— Dori Berinstein

Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film…

— Kate Cary

The camera cannot leave the man, but the man can leave the camera. It's in the style of documentary where you make…

— Tobias Lindholm

It's unfortunate that a lot of the time in documentaries, the camera person isn't a personality. That's such a wasted opportunity.

— John Wilson

Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling.

— Pamela Yates

I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to…

— Shawn Ryan

Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried…

— Wavy Gravy

There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the…

— Bob Dylan

That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself.

— Kofi Siriboe

I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But…

— Agnes Varda

My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet,…

— Michael Ian Black

I'm not somebody who comes in with a whole outline, and says, "Here's the movie we're going to make." That's not what…

— Morgan Spurlock

I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not…

— Chuck Klosterman

For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also…

— Giles Duley

...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of…

— Beat Streuli

We exaggerate the difference between documentary and fiction. I think that on some level a fiction film is also a documentary on…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

I did a few documentaries as co-director and cameraman. I started off shooting a film about the war in Rhodesia. Then I…

— Roger Deakins

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.

— A. J. Cook

I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.

— Michael Rapaport

Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

— Barbara Kopple

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

— Robert Zemeckis

I'd like to make documentaries. Way-out documentaries. I'd like to do one on a tour of the U.S.

— Dave Clark

You make documentaries because you love doing it; it's the only sane reason to make documentaries.

— Morgan Neville

I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.

— Meshell Ndegeocello

Sound is the most important thing on any film, especially documentaries.

— Matthew Heineman

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

— Werner Herzog

Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.

— Alex Gibney

Reality TV has ruined people's ability to watch documentary.

— David Farrier

A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.

— Dorothy B. Porter

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

— Tim Hetherington

As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,.

— David Dixon

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

— Edward Norton