Documentary Quotes

192 quotes by 167 authors

Helen Weaverâ€™s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasnâ€™t there! This… — Carolyn Cassady
If you think that [Yale professor James] Saiers is in the greenhouse skeptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could… — Tom Wigley
It is clear from a common sense viewing of the program that coarse language is a part of the culture of the individuals being portrayed.… — Jonathan Adelstein
The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to make choices when… — Mark Rydell
All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned. — Ruth Brown
Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching… — Darren Aronofsky
I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than… — Geri Halliwell
I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
This elaborate Golden Dawn system became part of Crowley's own inner world ... He carried it further than even the Golden Dawn principals had envisaged.… — Israel Regardie
Two remarkable men -- one young, one old -- fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On. — Leonard Maltin
Joe Berlinger's documentary 'Whitey' is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can't take your eyes off the screen. — Leonard Maltin
Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary. — Stephanie Coontz
I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as an… — Scott Ritter
You made a point about proof. In this sort of history we do nt have proof... Yet... the incontrovertibility of the evidence can be plain… — Robert Conquest
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity. — Yahoo Serious
The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways… — Harold H. Greene
I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me. — Jack Brickhouse
I think everything can be painted because painting can change reality; but everything cannot be photographed and the photographer often comes home empty-handed, with images… — Martine Franck
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
A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free. — Dorothy B. Porter

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