I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it. — Ice T Copy Share Image
I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there. — Jamie Bell Copy Share Image
There was no model how to make a documentary production company work. I figured it out as I went along. — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
For a documentary it's so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film — Adam McKay 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'm a fan of the fly-on-the-wall-type documentary, even if I'm not particularly interested in the location of the wall. — Sarah Millican Copy Share Image
I have taken advantage of my husband, to the extent that I even got HBO to do a documentary with me. — Laurie David Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all… — Judy Parfitt Copy Share Image
I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to… — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
If you're able to appeal to a broader market, you can make an entertaining narrative film. Whereas a documentary is something that… — Nick Searcy Copy Share Image
When was the last time you saw a documentary that fundamentally changed the way you think? ...Pandora’s Promise is built around what… — Owen Gleiberman Copy Share Image
The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
A lot of documentaries have been made very quickly, but I think they're like frogs in an ecosystem: They're harbingers. Film is… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I've been wanting to do a documentary on the true heart of the groupie ever since I was one. The groupie is… — Pamela Des Barres Copy Share Image
Non-fiction or documentaries can tell any kind of a story because they don't have to adhere to the rules of what's possible.… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
I love 'Robot Chicken,' 'The Boondocks' and 'America's Funniest Home Videos.' Then there's this show called 'The First 48.' It's a documentary… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don't make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
My obsession with documentary coincided with this job I had where I worked for a private investigator for about a year after… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
It has taken a lot of persuasion for me to take part in an official documentary about 'Only Fools and Horses.' But,… — David Jason Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Two remarkable men -- one young, one old -- fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On. — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
As a documentary filmmaker, I couldn't afford to give my children the lifestyle I had in San Francisco growing up. — Alexandra C. Pelosi Copy Share Image
People still come to Baltimore and say, "I didn't realize you made documentaries." — John Waters Copy Share Image
I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker. — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
One of the excuses used for not casting culturally different actors is authenticity. But theater is not documentary. — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is. — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion. — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
