Documentary Quotes

192 quotes by 167 authors

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to… — Jean-Luc Godard
But if anyone so much as threatened them because of what Kaia had once done, she would turn the Slumber Party Massacre into Blood, Bath… — Gena Showalter
So you're Zach." Townsend didn't even try to hide the judgement in his voice as he looked Zach up and down in some sort of… — Ally Carter
Okay, 'Best Party Ever' -- to me, that's like saying 'Best Gym Ever' or 'Best Nature Documentary Ever,' like how good can it really be? — Lena Dunham
Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I think to myself,… — Hiromu Arakawa
I didn't feel physically sick. But mentally. My mind was twisting in so many ways. (...) We once saw a documentary on migraines. One of… — Jay Asher
I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a documentary filmmaker and… — Daniel Bruhl
I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a documentary filmmaker and… — Daniel Bruhl
If I wanted to make something that actually made a difference roughly in this industry, I would make a documentary. That would be the closest… — Neill Blomkamp
I agreed to film after my rookie year in Golden State. I was more used to cameras and felt that my journey to the NBA… — Jeremy Lin
With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we… — Lucy Walker
Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever. — Leos Carax
Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary. — Martin Parr
My photography changed from being more documentary-like to arranging things more, and that came into being partly because I started doing music videos, and I… — Anton Corbijn
I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an… — Howard Shore
I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that. — Chris Lilley
I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories. — Sheila Nevins
Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally… — Henry Rollins
When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit. — Leslie Cockburn
In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple. — Leslie Cockburn

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