Documentary Quotes · Page 7

We should not confuse having a Flip camera with making a documentary.

— Kevin Macdonald

Joe Berlinger's documentary 'Whitey' is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can't take your eyes off the screen.

— Leonard Maltin

I would say one of my favorite books is 'Blood Brothers,' a documentary about Malcolm X.

— Tobias Harris

I had my own documentary that I filmed in D.C., which is where I'm from.

— Lexi Underwood

Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

— Gene Siskel

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

— Naomi Wolf

I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.

— Arnon Goldfinger

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

— Dennis Hopper

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

Stylistically, in improv, I don't think you can have as many camera tricks; I think you're kind of shooting more like a…

— Matt Walsh

I'm really excited to be a part of it and sharing the legacy, any documentary I look up at the sky and…

— Brandon Routh

I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz],…

— Ben Stiller

I'm a documentary filmmaker, so often I'm in the position of talking to people who are sharing stories that are critically important…

— Kristi Jacobson

Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's…

— Beaumont Newhall

You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where…

— Imogen Cunningham

Growing up either from classes or watching movies I knew, of course, about kung fu, karate, aikido, Muay Thai... But the first…

— Gareth Evans

There's a great documentary on Tupac called 'Resurrection' about the last few years of Tupac's life and how he transformed. And, ironically,…

— Marco Rubio

The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction…

— James Nachtwey

I watching this Disney documentary, and I'm not Disney, but I was thinking about Mickey Mouse and he became an icon. Walt…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

Yeah, I think any type of filmmaking is good as an on-ramp to making films. But I will say that documentary filmmakers…

— RaMell Ross

My wife made me watch this documentary about the Iraq War, and there was a really powerful moment where they followed some…

— Charlie Brooker

I remember somebody saying something to me about Frost/Nixon, when Anthony Hopkins does his famous speech, and the difference in the way…

— Vanessa Kirby

I'd seen Jose Padilha's 'Elite Squad 1' and '2', and I'd seen his documentary, 'Bus 174'.

— Boyd Holbrook

A lot of documentaries are biased - they leave out a lot of information.

— Tim Pool

The part of television I like are things that have a documentary feel to them.

— John de Lancie

The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

— Dana Snyder

Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

— Bruce Jackson

In some ways, the documentary form is a kind of trap and so is societal norms.

— Robert Greene

When you come to documentaries, the stakes are too low for it to be cutthroat. You're all doing it for the right…

— Morgan Neville

There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.

— Joshua Oppenheimer

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

— Skrillex

I would love to direct a documentary film if any good subject comes my way.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.

— Dana Spiotta

Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.

— Alex Gibney

A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.

— Dorothy B. Porter

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

— Tim Hetherington

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

— Steven Spielberg

I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.

— Simon Beaufoy