Documentary Quotes · Page 6

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

— Robert Redford

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

— Gza

You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens.

— Ed Cunningham

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

— Dutee Chand

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

— Robert Greene

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

— Morgan Neville

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

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

— Jean-Pierre Dardenne

I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I…

— Errol Morris

If I wanted to make something that actually made a difference roughly in this industry, I would make a documentary. That would…

— Neill Blomkamp

“If you are an aspiring honey farmer, I have a documentary you NEED to watch. It's called The Beekeeper, and it stars…

— Jarod Kintz

When you're making a real documentary, you shoot it and the movie happens. You don't make - this sounds corny - you…

— Chris Rock

In documentaries, the process is that you film a lot of things, and out of what you've shot, something organically reveals itself,…

— Max Joseph

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations…

— Ava DuVernay

I don't think you make documentary films to get your country house. If you're trying to gamble on that, you've very foolish.

— Liz Garbus

“I just watched this documentary on the mating habits of whiptail lizards and trust me, if those things can make it happen,…

— Robin Bielman

In college, I actually did some work on a documentary project talking to Vietnam vets about the images of war and how…

— Ron Livingston

In Austin, you work in anything that will pay and a lot of things that don't. The documentary filmmaker may also be…

— Keith Maitland

It has taken a lot of persuasion for me to take part in an official documentary about 'Only Fools and Horses.' But,…

— David Jason

I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we…

— Peter Greenaway

My obsession with documentary coincided with this job I had where I worked for a private investigator for about a year after…

— John Wilson

People who make documentaries have to be faithful to the facts. But when you are making a drama, a fiction based on…

— Milos Forman

The documentary 'Certifiably Jonathan' has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It's got a great subject - the extraordinarily voluble…

— Elvis Mitchell

I'll let the record [Who You Selling For] speak for itself. I don't want to get too in-depth with my personal opinions…

— Taylor Momsen

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

— Marty Stuart

Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries.

— Pirjo Honkasalo

There's always the question when you're making a documentary if the talking heads will work.

— Heidi Ewing

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

— Gus Van Sant

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

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

— Jeremy Coon

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

— Leslie Cockburn

I was a documentary film-maker for 26 years before I became a full time actor.

— Suhasini Mulay

“The problem is we are not eating food anymore, we are eating food like products. (Hungry For Change Film)”

— Alejandro Junger

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

— Russell Howard

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

— Christopher Guest

As a documentary filmmaker, I try to be sensitive to my subjects.

— Keith Maitland

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

— Leslie Cockburn

As a kid, I watched every Madonna documentary and tour. I was obsessed with her - and with any pop star of…

— Kim Petras

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

— Davis Guggenheim