When you come to documentaries, the stakes are too low for it to be cutthroat. You're all doing it for the right… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
Documentaries are unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to… — Cosima Spender Copy Share Image
When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on… — Bruce Weber Copy Share Image
If you care about the 2012 election and value the voices of regular Americans who lost hope in their hope and change… — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
I’ve long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special. — Joe Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Joe Berlinger's documentary 'Whitey' is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can't take your eyes off the screen. — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
The film [Dream of Life] came together when we started editing; it was organic, it became nonlinear and it was its own… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
I haven't been manipulated. I did a documentary in prison years ago because I was so f - ed off with those… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share Image
I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on Head Start, on poverty.… — Joan Ganz Cooney Copy Share Image
Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism,… — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
At times doc filmmaking feels more rewarding creatively. Because you are creating something out of pure cinema - instead of narrative cinema,… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Maybe today I would call Fred Leuchter and there would be two or three other documentary filmmakers interested in his story simply… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about… — Paul Wesley Copy Share Image
I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work. — Arnon Goldfinger Copy Share Image
Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways. — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
'30 for 30s' are amazing. They're little documentaries and can be anywhere from half an hour to an hour-and-a-half - great sports stories. — James Wolk Copy Share Image
I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role. — Liz W. Garcia Copy Share Image
But if anyone so much as threatened them because of what Kaia had once done, she would turn the Slumber Party Massacre… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
For some reason or other there was in me the desire to see the world clean and fresh and alive, as primitive… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things. — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like. — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism. — Skrillex Copy Share Image
If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There… — Richard Donner Copy Share Image
I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman… — Rosie Perez Copy Share Image
My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality -… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never… — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of the Eagles, but I've watched their documentary numerous times and everyone who's watched it with me has… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
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