Documentaries Quote by Michael Patrick Jann

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

— David Strathairn

The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also…

— Ann Macbeth

Solutions require action, and one of the things I love most about documentary filmmaking is that it allows for the creation of powerful impact…

— Beth Murphy

I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.

— Kevin Macdonald

It's expensive to shoot on film.

— Karl Glusman

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

A good film is also a documentary

— Eric Rohmer

Documentaries make a difference.

— Paul Watson

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

Alfred Hitchcock had to find ways to create tension without showing it, but now with computer-generated effects you can show anything.

— Giles Duley

It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something Michael Caton-Jones told me: 'Pain is temporary. Film is…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

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

— Leslie Cockburn