Documentary Quotes

192 quotes by 167 authors

My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me. — Noel Redding
I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys… — Ben Stiller
I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw… — Ben Stiller
As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,. — David Dixon
Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific… — Hedi Slimane
Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea… — Lawrence Bender
With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of. — Chris Shiflett
After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up… — Kirk Hammett
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. — Alfred Hitchcock
Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction. — Philip Seymour Hoffman
On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary. — Mindy Kaling
I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion. — Mike Mills
We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second. — Colin Mochrie
In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle… — Sun Myung Moon
For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well. — Michael Moore
We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary. — Michael Moore
I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it… — Michael Moore
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. — Edward Norton
I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on? — Robert Redford
I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists. — Robert Redford

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