Documentary Quotes

192 quotes by 167 authors

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject. — Leslie Cockburn
For me, every film is actually a form of documentary. — Ira Sachs
I think what I love about the documentary process is that you bring yourself to the documentary. And hopefully that makes you ask good questions,… — Soledad O'Brien
Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted… — W G Sebald
Those are just some of the people whom we interviewed in the documentary, but that should provide you with a good sense of the credibility… — Robert Greenwald
The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject. — Ben Edwards
This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and… — Ben Edwards
The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say. — Ann Macbeth
When I look back at the way that I was in that documentary I cringe. — Benjamin Cohen
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility. — Bruce Jackson
This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so… — Martin Bashir
Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort… — Monica Lewinsky
The last reunion was a bit of a rushed job, we had to do a gig and documentary. — Brian Harvey
I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as discreet… — Michel Gondry
But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how… — Errol Morris
The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I was completely intrigued… — Criss Angel
So it is that one side effect of the HD revolution has been the gratifying and edifying return of the nature documentary - films about… — Tom Shales
I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up… — Jamie Johnson
Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room. — Nicholas Jarecki
I wanted to describe the world at the same time, through image, express what I felt. It was the time of the great documentary filmmakers:… — Krzysztof Kieslowski

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