Documentary Quotes · Page 8

The word 'archive' seems so reassuring, but I have a lot ofconcern over the longevity of documentary materials.

— David Grubbs

I'm a happy person! I guess I'm not as much of a pessimist as most documentary filmmakers.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary.

— Jeri Ryan

I can do a documentary on myself, and it would be, like, 10 minutes.

— John Corabi

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

— Leslie Cockburn

Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

— Frank Portman

The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.

— Joel Edgerton

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

— Davis Guggenheim

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary…

— Howard Shore

A lot of the distinctions that we make between drama and documentary are spurious. We're deeply confused about these issues. About the…

— Errol Morris

There's nothing attractive about doing a documentary. Nothing. It's hard, hard work, and I find having all the attention of the day…

— Elaine Stritch

Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction…

— Jonathan Demme

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival.…

— Maximilian Schell

I feel honoured to be making my third documentary with BBC Three and bringing visibility to this complex subject. The stats regarding…

— Zara McDermott

In documentary you sometimes see the tyranny of the linear, but what I've noticed in the last ten years in narrative film…

— Brian Lindstrom

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

— Jack Horner

In a fiction film, we know at some level we've suspended disbelief. In a documentary, we know that we're watching a drama…

— Joshua Oppenheimer

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 watched the documentary 'I Hate Christian Laettner,' and I really hate Christian Laettner. It made me understand why everybody hates Christian…

— Seth Rollins

I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,'…

— Harvey Weinstein

When I speak a serious subject in an informal and humorous way, it has bigger impact. So much so, when BBC made…

— Arunachalam Muruganantham

I received a phone call from my mother, and it was so complicated and involved, and it reminded me of just how…

— Lourdes Portillo

Independent documentary isn't beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. It's a pathway to renegade, independent…

— Josh Fox

Most women I know are not actresses, but they work for the U.N. or are documentary filmmakers, anthropologists.

— Annabelle Wallis

I love Humphrey Jennings. People ask me who my favorite documentary maker is, and he's certainly in the top three.

— Kevin Macdonald

Like theatre, crafting a documentary film takes tremendous commitment, patience and passion.

— Dori Berinstein

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

— Mark Zupan

I feel like there's a lot of sympathy and camaraderie among documentary filmmakers.

— Morgan Neville

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

— Beau Bridges

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I have learned that documentary makers are incredibly sneaky people.

— Anna Wintour

I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.

— Chris Lilley

In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs.

— Adrian Grenier

I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.

— Michael Rapaport

The last reunion was a bit of a rushed job, we had to do a gig and documentary.

— Brian Harvey

Being in a worldwide documentary is not something you grow up thinking is going to happen to you, to be honest with…

— Paul Mullin

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

— Tom Fletcher

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

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