Accurate Quote by Dana Spiotta

The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is…

— Dore Schary

I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience what to…

— Joe Berlinger

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

— Walker Evans

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but…

— Richard Avedon

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

— Paul Caponigro

Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that…

— Burton Silverman

I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the…

— Spike Jonze

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they…

— Philippe Halsman

The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise…

— Paul Strand

Every filmmaker has his own vision, and when they write a film or characters, they see certain people in those characters.

— Nushrat Bharucha

I feel like so much of what passes as documentary or reality TV is just so over-edited, and you don't get a real sense…

— John Wilson