Documentary Quotes · Page 4

Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.

— Alex Gibney

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

— Skrillex

There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.

— Joshua Oppenheimer

Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

— Bruce Jackson

The part of television I like are things that have a documentary feel to them.

— John de Lancie

A lot of documentaries are biased - they leave out a lot of information.

— Tim Pool

I'd seen Jose Padilha's 'Elite Squad 1' and '2', and I'd seen his documentary, 'Bus 174'.

— Boyd Holbrook

I had my own documentary that I filmed in D.C., which is where I'm from.

— Lexi Underwood

As a documentary filmmaker, 'Meru' was an irresistible challenge. You can spend years searching for the right story, but this one had…

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

The exposé, the compassion and outrage, of documentary fueled by the dedication to reform has shaded over into combinations of exoticism, tourism,…

— Martha Rosler

You can't hope for a better result as a campaigner than to have the prime minister announce a major policy change within…

— Heather Brooke

I suppose the primary intention of a documentary photographer is to document facts. My work often does this but it is not…

— Richard Billingham

I don't know the facts surrounding Andrew Jarecki's work. I think it's a triumph of television. But it does raise troubling issues…

— Joe Berlinger

Everybody was apprehensive about a documentary. When we're all dead and gone, we don't want to leave something that is not going…

— Gina Schock

Making a documentary on an issue that is not the easiest to have those conversations with people around you is something that…

— Zara McDermott

This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the…

— Ben Edwards

I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,'…

— Harvey Weinstein

My hat's off to documentary filmmakers. I don't know if I'm ever going back to it. You're treated like a second-class citizen…

— Terry Zwigoff

I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But…

— Agnes Varda

Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I…

— Carolyn Cassady

I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary…

— Dennis Muren

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

— Josh Brolin

Interestingly enough, I feel what the show [OJ Simpson] was able to accomplish in a really masterful way is that White America…

— Sterling K. Brown

We get so many requests like, 'We want behind-the-scenes access,' or 'We're going to show people what it's really like to be…

— Hope Hicks

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

— Naomi Wolf

I would say one of my favorite books is 'Blood Brothers,' a documentary about Malcolm X.

— Tobias Harris

Joe Berlinger's documentary 'Whitey' is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can't take your eyes off the screen.

— Leonard Maltin

Being in a worldwide documentary is not something you grow up thinking is going to happen to you, to be honest with…

— Paul Mullin

In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs.

— Adrian Grenier

The last reunion was a bit of a rushed job, we had to do a gig and documentary.

— Brian Harvey

I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.

— Chris Lilley

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

— Beau Bridges

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

— Mark Zupan

Most women I know are not actresses, but they work for the U.N. or are documentary filmmakers, anthropologists.

— Annabelle Wallis

Too many documentaries are intellectual exercises. I want documentaries to be alive.

— Davis Guggenheim

Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

— Frank Portman

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

— Leslie Cockburn

It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary.

— Jeri Ryan

I can do a documentary on myself, and it would be, like, 10 minutes.

— John Corabi

I'm a happy person! I guess I'm not as much of a pessimist as most documentary filmmakers.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi