Documentaries Quote by Alex Gibney Download Open image “No one likes documentaries.” — Alex Gibney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Documentaries Likes
I do really enjoy watching documentaries because it's such an interesting foray into other people's lives. — Ego Nwodim Copy Share Image
The trend for documentaries will never go away, because everybody wants to learn about the world. The world is awful in parts, but there's… — Daisy Ridley Copy Share Image
I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess. — Maria Thayer Copy Share Image
I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I have always felt that documentaries are an opportunity for me to witness a world that I know nothing about. — Chris Hegedus 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 like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet 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
The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share Image
Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
I'm in school every day. It depends on what it is that you do with all that free time when I'm not on the… — MC Lyte Copy Share Image
If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them. — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
