Documentary Quotes

192 quotes by 167 authors

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
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
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
I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think… — Ryan McGinley
For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also to make sure… — Giles Duley
When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose… — Sam Neill
When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the… — Trevor Nunn
I don't have a horror film in me just because I don't like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary in me, and… — Todd Phillips
In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good… — Garth Stein
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature… — Aaron Siskind
To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another. — Dennis Hopper
Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism. — David Riesman

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