Combination Quote by Martha Rosler

Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror,…

— Allan Sekula

Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by…

— Martha Rosler

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

Film is carrying a lot of ideology. It's carrying an image. It's forging an image not only of the rest of the world, but…

— Raoul Peck

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

Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through layers of…

— Taryn Simon

Unlike the book, with a documentary, you get a chance to show much more texture and color. Film gives you get a chance to…

— Steve Stoute

Television brings with it two dangerous hazards: the worship of celebrity and the blurring of reality and fantasy.

— Michael Portillo

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…

— Frank Gohlke

Documentaries were necessary for my growth as a person. I grew up very sheltered and it was a form of expressing myself.

— Kareem Mortimer

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

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such…

— Theodore Bikel