Documentary Quotes
192 quotes by 167 authors
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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer…
— Joseph Conrad
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A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any of the best technical photographs,…
— Mary Ellen Mark
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My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmost fidelity; achieving…
— Sam Abell
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Fear is not a word in my football documentary.
— Jose Mourinho
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
— Dorothea Lange
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Former Vice President Al Gore starring in a new documentary about global warming. I believe it's called [Leno snores]. ... The film actually features Al…
— Jay Leno
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If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes…
— Salman Rushdie
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I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.
— Michael Rapaport
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Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.
— Spike Jonze
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All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human…
— Jeremy Northam
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I am a Beyonce fan. I’m gonna watch her upcoming documentary because fortunately one of the TVs in our kitchen has closed captioning so I’ll…
— Wendy Williams
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I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
— Beau Bridges
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I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and…
— Rosie Perez
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Dice Rules is one of the most appalling movies I have ever seen. It could not be more damaging to the career of Andrew Dice…
— Roger Ebert
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Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The…
— Roger Ebert
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I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary…
— Timothy Bottoms
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For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux Paris photographic plates,…
— Eugene Atget
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That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
— Walker Evans
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What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced unconsciously and even…
— Walker Evans
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Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control…
— Brian De Palma
Who Wrote These Documentary Quotes
167 authors contributed a total of 192 Documentary Quotes, led by these top contributors: