Documentaries Quotations

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.

Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them

Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.

My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.

I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.

I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like

I love going on BBC6 and BBC7 and listening to documentaries.

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

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

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

I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.

Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.

Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening

I want to do a documentary about strippers, 'cause it's a moneymaker.

I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if its worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way.

I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.

Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.

There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary, if it was on 16mm. But, with the magic of digital.

There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling.

I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.

I don't have a horror film in me just because I don't like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary in me, and I certainly have dramas.

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

I love documentaries, I like observing real people.

I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries.

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.

I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.

I love those documentaries where everyone is fabulous and always perfect.

We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary.

I'm not a fan of the Eagles, but I've watched their documentary numerous times and everyone who's watched it with me has sung along to the songs, much to my dismay.

I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.

I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.

I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.

You see reality TV and it's not reality TV. It's contrived and everything is plotted and scripted nearly. Documentaries are the same and just as bad.

Bizarrely funny... Rarely is a documentary as well attuned to its subject as Howard Brookner's BURROUGHS, which captures as much about the life, work and sensibility of its subject as its 86 minute format allows.

I hate making TV documentaries.

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations...

Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

When you see the documentary, you'll see that there were parallels. Michael and I both wanted Daniel Craig, and it was the same as it was for Cubby and Harry when they wanted Sean [Connery]. The studio wanted a star and wanted an American, and wanted this and that, but they determined, "No, it's Sean Connery."

You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens.

As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,.

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on.

Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date.

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.

No one likes documentaries.

The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.

Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.

The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.

Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.

Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.

A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film as being an absolute version of the truth.

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

I'm not somebody who comes in with a whole outline, and says, "Here's the movie we're going to make." That's not what a documentary is for me. I think a documentary is about capturing events as they unfold in real time.

There's a plethora of wonderful documentaries. I made a point of not looking at anyone else's portrayal of Henry because I think it would have been too confusing - so I've got a lot of films to look forward to.

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries.

I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

A good film is also a documentary

...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.

Fear is not a word in my football documentary.

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.

Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.

I've done several commercials and I've done voiceovers for documentaries.

With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of.

You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.

Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.

I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I had trouble finishing things.

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.