Documentaries Quotes · Page 9

Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the…

— Cilla Black

I'm Ready to Die without a Reasonable Doubt Smoke Chronic and hit it Doggystyle before I go out. Until they sign my…

— Jayceon Terrell Taylor

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film.…

— Jonathan Demme

I'm so proud of Jason's [Benjamin] work. I can say this and he can't, but there's no group of documentary subjects more…

— Lena Dunham

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

— Martin Parr

Sometimes my fashion pictures can look a little bit like documentary style pictures. So having a camera in my hand was normal.

— Steven Sebring

I don't have a horror film in me just because I don't like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary…

— Todd Phillips

I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is…

— Haskell Wexler

As I get older it gets harder and harder to hold on to the ephemeral excitement. When a documentary, or a screenplay,…

— Andrew Neel

David Irving has consistenly applied an evidential double standard, demanding absolute documentary proof to convict the Germans (as when he sought to…

— David Cannadine

The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the…

— Arthur Tress

I did not want to prance around trees singing and dancing. I had to make a living and for that I started…

— Suhasini Mulay

I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in…

— John Hyams

I make documentaries from time to time to remind myself of reality. It's like musicians doing scales to keep their fingers working:…

— Agnes Varda

With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new…

— Lucy Walker

I read "Milk" and immediately I was very emotional after reading it and then I saw the documentary - the one that…

— Josh Brolin

Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than…

— Roger Ebert

Investigative journalism has been relegated to a very, very tiny space in America. We don't really have much investigative journalism left. And…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary…

— Jean-Luc Godard

Two remarkable men -- one young, one old -- fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On.

— Leonard Maltin

With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of.

— Chris Shiflett

Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has…

— Walker Evans

I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've…

— George Saunders

People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in…

— Alex Hammond

As far as documentaries, 'Man on Wire,' 'Atomic Cafe,' 'Waltz With Bashir,' and 'Thin Blue Line' all offered me different perspectives to…

— Keith Maitland

I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that…

— Timothy Bottoms

I think I did fifteen long features and fifteen documentaries, or something like this, which is very little when you think of…

— Agnes Varda

I have made more documentaries in my time than I think I care to remember, though I am immensely proud of all…

— Charles Guggenheim

When I'm able to bring together the two worlds that I love so much - film and TV - is a documentary…

— Dori Berinstein

I do really enjoy watching documentaries because it's such an interesting foray into other people's lives.

— Ego Nwodim

I have always felt that documentaries are an opportunity for me to witness a world that I know nothing about.

— Chris Hegedus

A lot of documentaries are about something that already happened, but I think people are kind of afraid to let the story…

— John Wilson

Because in this business, as you know, you don't get that many bites at the apple, so I make documentaries for HBO…

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

There have been so many stories about alcoholism and drugs. Eating disorders are also a form of abuse, but rarely a theme…

— Sanna Lenken

The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about…

— Clive James

I've always intended to eventually make films. I've always been very aware of tone and shots. But documentaries are a great proving…

— George Ratliff

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

— Diane Cilento

I love to travel, which is sort of why I do documentaries and why I'm in this whole world of movies -…

— Fisher Stevens

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

— Jonathan Demme

When I left 'American Morning' in 2007, I'd focused on doing documentaries. But I thought 'Starting Point' was a great opportunity to…

— Soledad O'Brien