Documentary Quotes · Page 3

Reality TV has ruined people's ability to watch documentary.

— David Farrier

I could really sink my teeth into a David Bowie documentary.

— Morgan Neville

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm…

— Ruth Brown

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

— Tony Kaye

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

— Catherine Opie

“Life is just a fifteen minute documentary if you keep erasing your past...”

— Gaurav Sharma

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

— W. Kamau Bell

I have a strong background in, like, documentary and current affairs. I did a good five years of just food programming.

— Adam Pearson

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

— Leos Carax

If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.

— Wagner Moura

In late 2011, I watched a documentary by Stephen Fry called 'The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive.' He shared his story…

— Tom Fletcher

'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was…

— Jack Horner

Thhe essence of documentary filmmaking is how you manipulate the material to create an emotional impact, as opposed to just delivering information.

— Richard Ray Perez

It's impossible for one or two people to go out and shoot a narrative film; you need to have a cast, the…

— Jeremy Coon

I was at the National Film School and was a cinematographer there. I got quite a lot of experience on documentary film-making…

— Lynne Ramsay

I was so used to documentary filming, where it's one take. You can't really say, 'Make that elephant charge again!' And you…

— Bindi Irwin

Director Ken Burns revealed that his next documentary is about Franklin Roosevelt, and it's fourteen hours long...which sounds like too much, until…

— Jimmy Fallon

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction…

— Jean-Luc Godard

I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well…

— Peter Greenaway

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

There's a real difference between a documentary that was all about facts and history and information. People just don't get as engaged…

— Abigail Disney

What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of…

— Joseph Conrad

'Under the Skin' is handsome, in a dour way, but inert - a cunning experiment that died in the shooting or on…

— Richard Corliss

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 submerged myself in all the information that I could find about Idi Amin. I mean, before I left Los Angeles, I…

— Forest Whitaker

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

— Agnes Varda

I am particularly pleased to see that there are so many women working in documentary film.

— Chris Hegedus

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

— Mike Mills

Singing for a documentary that benefits the underprivileged remains one of my biggest dreams.

— Arijit Singh

Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.

— Adam Curtis

Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling.

— Pamela Yates

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

— Jon Richardson

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

— Kevin Macdonald

I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all.

— Brian Lindstrom

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

— Aaron Ramsdale

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

— Nicole Nielsen Horanyi

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

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

— Stacey Dooley

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

— Anna Boden