Documentaries Quote by Michael Moore Download Open image “Documentaries are a form of journalism.” — Michael Moore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Documentaries Form Journalism
You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism. — Tim Hetherington 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
In some ways, making documentaries is like being a journalist. You interview people and then use the bits you want to use as opposed… — Kevin Macdonald 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 unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to people, a… — Cosima Spender Copy Share Image
Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is. — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom and morality and humanity. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
There Is No Terrorist Threat In This Country. This Is A Lie. This Is The Biggest Lie We've Been Told. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The real problem with the IRS is that they let General Electric not pay any taxes -- and 50 other corporations -- that's the… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and… — Michael Moore 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;… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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
