Dreams Quote by Steve Backshall

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a…

— David Attenborough

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

— Stefan Zweig

Many people have this memory of traditional TV documentary-making that aims to portray pure reality, and I just don't see that as the only…

— Alex Gibney

Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't…

— Graham King

We do documentaries on the history of cinema in between our feature films.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

— Catherine Opie

I think that the role of curating an exhibition is to reanimate history and make it relevant to a contemporary viewer.

— Charlotte Cotton

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that…

— Steven Spielberg

The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

— Marston Bates

I think there's a general confusion that my work is about types of photography. But really that's just a tool to introduce some questions…

— Elad Lassry

Above all, documentary must reflect the problems and realities of the present. It cannot regret the past; it is dangerous to prophesy the future.…

— Paul Rotha