Documentary Quotes · Page 5

It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.

— Rick Springfield

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

— Diane Cilento

It just bums me out when some people hear 'documentary,' and they think 'Blackfish.'

— John Wilson

Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.

— Gus Van Sant

Documentary films have always been my passion, I have done documentaries.

— Shoojit Sircar

If I weren't making documentary films, I suppose I'd be teaching.

— Brian Lindstrom

Brilliant documentaries are about so much more than their subject.

— Gemma Whelan

And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.

— Michael Patrick Jann

I came through the ranks of the BBC documentary department. I was lucky working during this drama doc era, where they did…

— Gareth Edwards

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by…

— Rod Serling

Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

There are many documentary filmmakers who have a tough time because they don't really get what they need to do what they…

— Max von Sydow

So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want…

— Jenny Holzer

Of course, when you're making a documentary, you don't have actors, but nonetheless, there is a writing process that does take place…

— Rithy Panh

When I'm not singing, I'm a lot of persons: I'm a producer. I'm a badminton player. I'm a writer. I'm a movie…

— Arijit Singh

It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

Docs are more exhausting because of the physical labor that's required. Feature filmmaking is more exhausting because of politics and the bullshit.…

— George Hickenlooper

I really loved working on 'Laguna Beach,' and I'd do it all over again. I'm one of the luckiest kids in the…

— Stephen Colletti

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

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

— Josh Brolin

Critics can say what they like about the films, but very often, there's a certain expectation of documentaries that they're supposed to…

— Alex Gibney

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

I didn't really know what to expect, but I thought there aren't a lot of rap groups that can say they have…

— Phife Dawg

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

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

— Jamie Bell

Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it.

— Ice T

With a documentary, you can cut away, you can do jump cuts, cut to a photograph at any point to bridge two…

— Christopher Guest

By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than…

— Natalie Merchant

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

— Anna Deavere Smith

I spoke to my father about making a documentary on him. I have been seriously contemplating that.

— Arbaaz Khan

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 like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.

— Kevin Macdonald

How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?

— Martha Rosler

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

— DeSean Jackson

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

— Angelina Maccarone

I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.

— Iris Apfel

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

— Roger Ebert

How do you documentary a life when real life's getting more like fiction each day

— Sushan Sharma

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

— Norman Davies