Documentary Quotes · Page 5

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

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

The word 'archive' seems so reassuring, but I have a lot ofconcern over the longevity of documentary materials.

— David Grubbs

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

— Steven Spielberg

In documentaries, you're confronted with reality; you can not manipulate or move it.

— Jean-Pierre Dardenne

I've been promoting the idea of a Jimmie Rodgers documentary for years.

— Marty Stuart

You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.

— Errol Morris

If you're not doing it for the right reasons, then you'd be dumb to be making documentaries.

— Morgan Neville

News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.

— Robert Greene

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

— Ben Edwards

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

Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some…

— Monica Lewinsky

Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.…

— Todd Phillips

Michael Moore announced that his next documentary film will attack the health care industry in America. He's not out to get the…

— Argus Hamilton

I'm very influenced by documentary filmmaking and independent filmmaking, by a lot of noir and films from the '40s. Those are my…

— Pamela Adlon

“Idea For A Short Documentary Film Representatives of different food products manufacturers try to open their own packaging.”

— Lydia Davis

Every time you are getting ready to make a shot in a documentary film, you are asking yourself questions about your cinematographic…

— Rithy Panh

Cinema is not truth. Even when you make documentary films, you can choose to show this shot and not the other shot…

— Rithy Panh

...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of…

— Beat Streuli

I just wanted to do the documentary to shine a light on disability in perhaps a different way than I have done…

— Alex Brooker

I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the…

— Michel Gondry

I have a 22-year-old son, and when my son was born I made a decision to raise him. My husband and I…

— Maryse Alberti

There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's…

— Errol Morris

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us…

— Jeremy Northam

I've known Owen's father Ron [Suskind] for years, and this was based on his best-selling book ["Life, Animated"]. We worked together as…

— Roger Ross Williams

I don't know if I'd mastered that documentary format, but I wanted to move on from it.

— Christopher Guest

In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.

— Leslie Cockburn

I'll sit down for 'Stranger Things' or 'The Handmaid's Tale' - or a really good documentary.

— Russell Howard

There's a lot of documentaries out in the world; it sometimes seems as if there's no topic left!

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

When you make a documentary, you have to adapt to what reality imposes upon you.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.

— Leslie Cockburn

The great documentary subjects find you, you don't really search for them.

— Jeremy Coon

My brother made a whole documentary of my life. It's a long story.

— DeSean Jackson

When I look back at the way that I was in that documentary I cringe.

— Benjamin Cohen

Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.

— Stephanie Coontz

I have watched a documentary on Caster Semenya. I am inspired by how she made a comeback.

— Dutee Chand

I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.

— Robert Redford

A bad historian is even more dangerous than dead documentary wood.

— Norman Davies

Documentaries sometimes can be shot over 10 years. You plan to stop in two, but you still gotta catch more.

— Gza

A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.

— Roger Ebert

'The Look' is my first documentary, and I enjoyed the freedom of working within a small team.

— Angelina Maccarone