Contradictions Quote by Alex Gibney Download Open image “Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.” — Alex Gibney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contradictions Documentaries Embrace Journalism Way
In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is. — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism. — Tim Hetherington Copy Share Image
Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged -… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
When you make a documentary, you have to adapt to what reality imposes upon you. — Hirokazu Kore-eda Copy Share Image
Documentaries are unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to people, a… — Cosima Spender Copy Share Image
Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
In documentaries, you're confronted with reality; you can not manipulate or move it. — Jean-Pierre Dardenne Copy Share Image
Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual… — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James Brown recently;… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
The internet connects us all and provides this fabulous fact-checking mechanism, and yet at the same time, the power of lies is conveyed much… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
With every project I start out on, there's no footage. It's always a big slog to find the footage. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
Bill Gates, who is the classic computer nerd, as opposed to Steve who is, like the coolest guy in the world. And who is… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
If people are portrayed as monsters, we become disconnected from them, and to me that is not remotely interesting. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
Even with a villain, you don't want him just to be some pockmarked punchbag. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
You see the natural progression of what happens when the executive gets power and then a new executive comes in. The new executive doesn't… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
The Barack Obama Administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined. That's a staggering record. And it comes from a president who… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. And so, the transparency… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
It's hard to make a living doing documentaries. Frankly, if it takes you five years to do a film, and that's the only film… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“ If "If freckles were lovely, and day was night, And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie, Life would be delight,--… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough...… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“One of the things about Ike that makes him so indisputably a hero is that he doesn't leave his own contradictions to the effete… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The need to be right can arise from a fear of being disrespected. Or it may come out of the fear of being seen… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them. — John Burdett Copy Share Image
An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
“I have now gone through the examination of the four books ascribed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; and when it is considered that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians.” — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
