Documentaries Quote by Michael Apted Download Open image “So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.” — Michael Apted ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Documentaries I can Moving
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 watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I do really enjoy watching documentaries because it's such an interesting foray into other people's lives. — Ego Nwodim Copy Share Image
When I go to the DVD shop, I mostly buy documentaries because you learn a lot from documentaries. — Gaspar Noe 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'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature. — Frank Marshall 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
I love documentaries. I love the format. I've been doing them for a long time. — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things. — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see. — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air,… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television. — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft… — Michael Apted 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
Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasn’t there!… — Carolyn Cassady Copy Share Image
