Documentary Quotes

192 quotes by 167 authors

Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week. — Jason Reitman
I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is… — Julia Roberts
I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything. — Gus Van Sant
Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s. — Gus Van Sant
I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if documentary… — Gus Van Sant
And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story… — Maximilian Schell
The video for 'Whatever' is kind of a documentary in a way. It's showing that love can last. Not just in your early 20s or… — Jill Scott
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits… — Rod Serling
You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you… — William Shatner
Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch? — Gene Siskel
I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that. — Anna Deavere Smith
It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans. — Rick Springfield
We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep… — Bradley Whitford
In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George… — Naomi Wolf
Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed. — Naomi Wolf
Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could… — George Orwell
...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs… — Jorge Amado
I'm Min's fairy godmother, Charm Boy,' Liza said, frowning down at him. 'And if you don't give her a happily ever after, I'm going to… — Jennifer Crusie
Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain. — Frank Portman
As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc.," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are actually owned by… — Anthony Bourdain

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