Documentaries Quote by Maria Thayer Download Open image “I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.” — Maria Thayer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Documentaries Ends People Seeing Serious Wit Wits end
I do really enjoy watching documentaries because it's such an interesting foray into other people's lives. — Ego Nwodim Copy Share Image
I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming… — Steven Yeun Copy Share Image
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
Documentaries are my favorite thing, and the more depressing, the better. — Maria Thayer 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
I love documentaries. I love the format. I've been doing them for a long time. — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
If someone is doing something crazy - or what I think is crazy - I'm watching, but also am I keeping the actual seriousness… — Maria Thayer Copy Share Image
I mostly, for someone who makes a lot of their living in comedy - and even for someone who doesn't make their living in… — Maria Thayer Copy Share Image
I need something fun to get my mind off of pretending to die and I didn't have any squibs under water. — Maria Thayer Copy Share Image
Documentaries are my favorite thing, and the more depressing, the better. — Maria Thayer Copy Share Image
I'm strictly a movie person. I mean, I watch the HBO documentaries and Netflix. — Maria Thayer Copy Share Image
I had to pretend to drown. I was underwater, which is scary, and I'm not afraid of water, but people do die underwater. — Maria Thayer Copy Share Image
I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James Brown recently; and, oddly, I found a lot in common between Jobs and Brown. Jobs was also a fantastic performer, put on an extraordinary live show at his product launches, but he could also be ruthless, cruel and… — Alex Gibney Copy Share
The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's in the photograph - a kind of rhetorical device or rhetorical strategy. It's always felt very natural to me, because I want a person to end up thinking about the world, and to think about it… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share
Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
I'm in school every day. It depends on what it is that you do with all that free time when I'm not on the… — MC Lyte Copy Share Image
If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them. — Michael Apted Copy Share Image