Documentaries Quotes

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Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to… — Zadie Smith
I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as… — Sebastiao Salgado
Depression is a real demon in the woods for a lot of creative people, you know? It's part of what the documentary is trying to… — Ethan Hawke
I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing… — Walker Evans
I watched a TV documentary about how animals are farmed, killed and prepared for us to eat. I saw all those cows and pigs and… — David Haye
In the early 1970s, the northern hemisphere appeared to have been cooling at an alarming rate. There was frequent talk of a new ice age.… — Stephen Schneider
I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk… — Saffron Burrows
You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go… — Dougray Scott
These people [the Christians] watched the Flintstones as if it were a documentary. — Lewis Black
Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me… — Wavy Gravy
I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order). — Tig Notaro
There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think documentaries… — Steven Spielberg
I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled. — Tatjana Patitz
Iâ€™ve long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special. — Joe Morgenstern
So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them. — Michael Apted
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history. — Catherine Opie
If you care about the 2012 election and value the voices of regular Americans who lost hope in their hope and change candidate, this is… — Jedediah Bila
Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to… — Andy Warhol
When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one… — Ken Burns
I want to do a documentary about strippers, 'cause it's a moneymaker. — Method Man

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