Documentaries Quotes · Page 7

I love documentaries. My problem is when the filmmaker becomes the star.

— Christopher Guest

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

— Anna Deavere Smith

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

— Roger Ross Williams

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

— Walter Salles

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

— Shweta Basu Prasad

I want to do a documentary about strippers, 'cause it's a moneymaker.

— Method Man

And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.

— Michael Patrick Jann

People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

— Laura Prepon

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in…

— Bradley Whitford

Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be…

— Olivia Wilde

Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural.…

— Darren Aronofsky

I watched this documentary on Madonna. I remember I grew up hearing she wanted to rule the world. Actually, she worked really…

— Winona Ryder

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of…

— Sam Neill

I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new…

— James Marsh

I don't think there's so much difference between making documentaries and feature films. I think it's even harder to make documentaries.

— Danis Tanovic

My dad had a dream of his kids reaching the NFL. My older brother was actually the first to make it. His…

— DeSean Jackson

The video for 'Whatever' is kind of a documentary in a way. It's showing that love can last. Not just in your…

— Jill Scott

It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these…

— Wavy Gravy

Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so…

— Ruth Ozeki

I love these sort of documentaries, which you might turn on late on a Saturday night - like, say, 'The Alma Cogan…

— Peter Capaldi

The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as…

— Ava DuVernay

As for documentary, it was a natural progression from my earlier career in journalism. The two media are connected, but of course…

— Nancy Kates

The only award I've been nominated for is a Scottish BAFTA. A Scottish BAFTA, it's like hearing that the animals have their…

— Frankie Boyle

Depression is a real demon in the woods for a lot of creative people, you know? It's part of what the documentary…

— Ethan Hawke

I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.

— Catherine Opie

Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it.

— Ice T

People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.

— Derek Jarman

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

— Jack Brickhouse

I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.

— Rick Springfield

Brilliant documentaries are about so much more than their subject.

— Gemma Whelan

If I weren't making documentary films, I suppose I'd be teaching.

— Brian Lindstrom

Documentary films have always been my passion, I have done documentaries.

— Shoojit Sircar

Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.

— Gus Van Sant

I like documentaries; I watch the Soccer Channel; I like the Military Channel.

— Steve Jones

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

— Griffin Dunne

I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries.

— Martin Parr

I've always been weirdly interested in food documentaries.

— Lily Collins

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

— Lauren Greenfield

People still come to Baltimore and say, "I didn't realize you made documentaries."

— John Waters