Documentary Quotes

192 quotes by 167 authors

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there. — Jamie Bell
When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary. — Diane Cilento
I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if… — Sacha Baron Cohen
I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found… — Sarah Wayne Callies
Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be… — Anita Diament
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
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
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
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 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
I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker. — Lauren Greenfield
And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money. — Michael Patrick Jann

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