Documentaries Quotes

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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 the… — Ava DuVernay
It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that. — Jonathan Demme
Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the newspaper… — Jonathan Demme
Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has… — Jonathan Demme
I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love… — Jonathan Demme
I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with which… — Jonathan Demme
With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself - 'This… — Paul Allen
When I hear the word 'documentary,' I don't think certain things should be left out. You've got to keep it 100 percent as much as… — Phife Dawg
My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries. — Lasse Hallstrom
I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by family values, which… — Clifton Collins, Jr.
There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary, if it was… — Lloyd Kaufman
I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television. — Robert Zemeckis
When was the last time you saw a documentary that fundamentally changed the way you think? ...Pandoraâ€™s Promise is built around what should be the… — Owen Gleiberman
Bizarrely funny... Rarely is a documentary as well attuned to its subject as Howard Brookner's BURROUGHS, which captures as much about the life, work and… — Janet Maslin
The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective… — Paul Strand
Documentary: Thatâ€™s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clearâ€¦ The term should be documentary styleâ€¦ You see, a document has use, whereas art… — Walker Evans
I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries. — Martin Parr
I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work. — Arnon Goldfinger
My friends adore 'TOWIE' - the TV documentary series, 'The Only Way is Essex.' They like it, I'm afraid, for the most unworthy of reasons:… — Peter York
If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising… — Richard Donner

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