Alive Quote by Davis Guggenheim Download Open image “Too many documentaries are intellectual exercises. I want documentaries to be alive.” — Davis Guggenheim ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alive Documentaries Fitness Intellectual Many
I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
I make documentaries from time to time to remind myself of reality. It's like musicians doing scales to keep their fingers working: when you're… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
Maybe if I found something I was really passionate about, which is entirely possible, I would make another documentary, but it's not a good… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
There's a lot of documentaries out in the world; it sometimes seems as if there's no topic left! — Alexandra C. Pelosi Copy Share Image
With documentaries, you go in with an open-mind but knowing what you want. — Chris Metzler Copy Share Image
If you're not doing it for the right reasons, then you'd be dumb to be making documentaries. — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
I have always felt that documentaries are an opportunity for me to witness a world that I know nothing about. — Chris Hegedus Copy Share Image
Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged -… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
I do a lot of audio-only interviews at first just to capture a feeling and go deeper, as if you're having the most quiet,… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
The more I work, the more I try to keep myself open like a raw nerve. When I feel things in a story, I… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Our schools are not geared toward building, preparing kids for the modern economy. — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Underneath it, in 'An Inconvenient Truth', we talked a lot about the unspoken decisions that people make in their heads. — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I was going to direct the movie 'Training Day', and I got fired. Denzel Washington didn't want me to direct the movie. — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I don't like it when a filmmaker has an agenda and I don't know it. When the contract is not clear, that's when there's… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I'm interested in a realization that's hiding beneath the surface, and maybe that's what documentaries can do best, is to try to unpack that… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
You look at the trajectories; and as our schools have declined, you see the other alternatives increase, private school, home schooling, all of the… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Is being negative more journalistic for some reason? I don't know. But I don't set out to make puff pieces and I don't set… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, the most dramatic and the most dread-inspiring thing is when the audience can see more than the characters themselves can see. — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these guys who thinks testing is the only thing. But testing is a piece but there has to be more… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
If you look at great reform, it always starts from parents. If you look at the movement to reform the special education movement, it… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today. — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive. — James Haven Copy Share Image
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. — Maureen Duffy Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
