Documentary Quotes · Page 4

I think you could very much make a 'Vanity Fair' in 2018, and I think it would probably look like a documentary.

— Tom Bateman

Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.

— Jason Reitman

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

For a documentary it's so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film

— Adam McKay

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

— Spike Jonze

There was no model how to make a documentary production company work. I figured it out as I went along.

— Morgan Neville

Tired of making money, I'm on a making history. Fuck how they feel I keep shit realer than a documentary.

— Wale

One of the excuses used for not casting culturally different actors is authenticity. But theater is not documentary.

— Paterson Joseph

I, for one, personally like rom-coms, silly rom-coms, but at the same time, I also want to watch a documentary or an…

— Kalki Koechlin

If a documentary crew were to follow me around, they'd probably think they were making a film about the saddest person in…

— Hannah Gadsby

I watched the Sandra Bland documentary and her tape itself over and over and over and over again, and just the reality…

— Jodie Turner-Smith

Bizarrely funny... Rarely is a documentary as well attuned to its subject as Howard Brookner's BURROUGHS, which captures as much about the…

— Janet Maslin

Maybe if I found something I was really passionate about, which is entirely possible, I would make another documentary, but it's not…

— Terry Zwigoff

Documentary filmmaking has all the challenges and hardships of narrative filmmaking without any of the infrastructure or support. That's both a blessing…

— Brian Lindstrom

In war films, even more than in other kinds of documentary, we've come to think that shaky, poor-quality footage is somehow more…

— Kevin Macdonald

Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and…

— Allan Sekula

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

By the end of the documentary [ '13th'], you really understand what prison is, what the prison industrial complex is, where this…

— Ava DuVernay

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

— Rithy Panh

For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also…

— Giles Duley

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

...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've always slightly harboured a dream of making a film, a documentary feature. Somehow I just got into a way of working…

— Louis Theroux

There's an amazing documentary, 'The Day After Trinity,' which is crazy good.

— John Benjamin Hickey

I like to watch movies - I just saw the documentary about Amy Winehouse, which was very good and emotional.

— Petra Kvitova

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

— Martin Parr

As a documentary filmmaker, I couldn't afford to give my children the lifestyle I had in San Francisco growing up.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

People still come to Baltimore and say, "I didn't realize you made documentaries."

— John Waters

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

— Lauren Greenfield

Kadamban' is not a documentary, although it's set in a tribal backdrop. There's dancing and a whole lot of entertainment.

— Catherine Tresa

I have taken advantage of my husband, to the extent that I even got HBO to do a documentary with me.

— Laurie David

Two remarkable men -- one young, one old -- fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On.

— Leonard Maltin

With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of.

— Chris Shiflett

“My limitless ability to weave time and space does not make me a god - just a da-n good writer.”

— Edmund Alexander Sims

“NO greater love has a husband for his wife than to watch a 2hr documentary on an elite ballet competition.”

— Mark Venturini

When I'm able to bring together the two worlds that I love so much - film and TV - is a documentary…

— Dori Berinstein

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

— Alfred Hitchcock

The magic of documentary is that I keep being surprised and amazed by the things I film.

— Kim Longinotto

When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize.

— Ridley Scott