Documentary Quotes · Page 3

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

— Mike Mills

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

— Leos Carax

I'm a documentary filmmaker, I know what it means to craft a story, especially when you've shot a lot of material.

— Max Joseph

I feel like directorial teams aren't quite as uncommon in documentary.

— Anna Boden

Making a documentary about my hometown was always going to be the most difficult topic I had ever covered! No question.

— Stacey Dooley

Stay humble to the craft and never forget how much it actually takes to be the main character of a documentary.

— Nicole Nielsen Horanyi

When I'm filming a documentary, I feel like I should be the straight man, watching with a raised eyebrow.

— Jon Richardson

The first thing that I ever made was a documentary that I shot... in downtown L.A. about a group of homeless people.

— Pamela Adlon

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

The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or…

— Bruce Jackson

I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you…

— Jamie Johnson

There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary,…

— Lloyd Kaufman

A documentary film is a great way of helping people understand because, somehow, when one is able to see the people involved,…

— Lawrence Wright

I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought there was no way…

— Rory Kennedy

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in…

— Michael Apted

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as…

— Errol Morris

Stories, as we're taught in journalism school early on, are told through people. Those stories make our documentaries powerful. You can explore…

— Soledad O'Brien

Documentary film is the one place that our people can speak for themselves. I feel that the documentaries that I've been working…

— Alanis Obomsawin

We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was…

— Ben Shahn

I think it's important for History to keep experimenting with their shows. The more documentary-driven, the returning series, are the bottom of…

— Nancy Dubuc

I received a phone call from my mother, and it was so complicated and involved, and it reminded me of just how…

— Lourdes Portillo

Independent documentary isn't beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. It's a pathway to renegade, independent…

— Josh Fox

When I speak a serious subject in an informal and humorous way, it has bigger impact. So much so, when BBC made…

— Arunachalam Muruganantham

I watched the documentary 'I Hate Christian Laettner,' and I really hate Christian Laettner. It made me understand why everybody hates Christian…

— Seth Rollins

I have read up about the history of Wimbledon and watched the 'Crazy Gang' documentary on BT Sport.

— Aaron Ramsdale

Documentary makers use other people's lives as their raw material, and that is morally indefensible.

— Kevin Macdonald

Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

— Bela Fleck

I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

— Mary Ellen Mark

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

— Christopher Guest

I watched a documentary called 'Plastic Oceans' on Netflix, and it was an eye-opener for me.

— Kevin Anderson

In film, I believe things should either be documentary or drama.

— Kevin Macdonald

“The best documentaries are independent. They don’t exist to serve interests, philanthropic or otherwise.”

— Nick Fraser

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

— Sheila Nevins

The great thing about 'The Exorcist' is it's dead serious horror. No comedy, no self-reference, it's a documentary style.

— Leigh Whannell

I've always been a fan of these travel shows and documentary series.

— W. Kamau Bell

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

— Catherine Opie

We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary.

— Michael Moore

When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary film was.

— Tony Kaye

“If everyone knows so much about it, why do they need to make a documentary?”

— Brigid Pasulka

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

— Tim Hetherington