Documentaries Quote by Ice T

People have said to me, 'Oh, you are much nicer making documentaries than you were in politics.' So I should be. If you are…

— Michael Portillo

When you come to documentaries, the stakes are too low for it to be cutthroat. You're all doing it for the right reasons.

— Morgan Neville

When you make a documentary, you have to adapt to what reality imposes upon you.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

I think that documentaries are bound by journalistic ethics, and I think they have the pressure of trying to entertain someone for 90 minutes.…

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

— Leslie Cockburn

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads…

— William Shatner

The making of the documentary is an involving and collaborative process where you go deeper unlike in movies where you just borrow someone else's…

— Javed Jaffrey

Documentary makers use other people's lives as their raw material, and that is morally indefensible.

— Kevin Macdonald

A documentary film is a great way of helping people understand because, somehow, when one is able to see the people involved, it lends…

— Lawrence Wright

There's nothing attractive about doing a documentary. Nothing. It's hard, hard work, and I find having all the attention of the day on me…

— Elaine Stritch

As a documentary filmmaker, I try to be sensitive to my subjects.

— Keith Maitland

People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in order to…

— Alex Hammond