Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Music documentaries are tricky because of 'Spinal Tap.' That movie has stood the test of time. — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity. — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order). — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
When I go to the DVD shop, I mostly buy documentaries because you learn a lot from documentaries. — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
It's a big surprise to me that I make Radio 4 documentaries. That was never the plan. — Tim Key Copy Share Image
I was no stranger to risk myself, having made documentaries in dangerous conditions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Africa. — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Copy Share Image
There's a wide range today of documentaries on politics. The central mass of it is made by networks, and nothing's changed. — Robert Drew Copy Share Image
I mostly like documentaries, so I always think things that happened in real life are so astounding that why would you make… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
Documentaries require an enormous amount of grit and empathy - and that is something women are incredibly strong at. — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Copy Share Image
A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life, emotional, documentary-style, not big and cinematic and ultimately like the… — Dan Trachtenberg Copy Share Image
There's a really geeky YouTube channel which I love. It's a guy called Oliver Harper. He makes documentaries about films. He's a… — Kayvan Novak Copy Share Image
Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story? — Martha Rosler Copy Share Image
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
A lot of work was done with one of my best friends and editor, Spencer Averick, who's edited everything I've ever made… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30… — Bahman Ghobadi Copy Share Image
Even though I make documentaries, everyone's acting in a way. Really. And you're creating, and you're confabulating things. You can't relive reality,… — Lourdes Portillo Copy Share Image
You can’t be serious,” Eve said. “Guys. People get eaten in places like this. At the very least, we get locked in… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
My advice to emerging documentary filmmakers would be: try to find other people, a group, a cooperative that you can work with.… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week. — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
I love every single genre from documentaries, horror, comedy, drama, '80s, classic, I have it all. — Lydia Hearst Copy Share Image
It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
Maybe every two films you need to do documentary to tell what you really want to tell and not be limited by… — Fatih Ak?n Copy Share Image
The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it. — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too. — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
When I have had a long day at work, I want something to watch that is funny, lighthearted and easy to get… — Amy Childs Copy Share Image
If you think that [Yale professor James] Saiers is in the greenhouse sceptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of… — Tom Wigley Copy Share Image
When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty. — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been… — Sacha Baron Cohen Copy Share Image
When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do… — Norman Jewison Copy Share Image
When making documentaries, the most important thing I learned was to listen, observe gestures and facial expressions. — Hirokazu Kore-eda Copy Share Image
A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
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