quotes about Documentary Films

last updated: November 28, 2023

In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
-- Garth Stein

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I'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary, even if I don't have the full funding yet. So you have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter.
-- Haile Gerima

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.
-- Michael Rapaport

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I am particularly pleased to see that there are so many women working in documentary film.
-- Chris Hegedus

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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There's a documentary film-maker called Werner Herzog, who's a German film-maker. I really dig his stuff, I'd love to chat with him.
-- Finn Jones

Source : Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out.
-- Pamela Yates

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If I weren't making documentary films, I suppose I'd be teaching.
-- Brian Lindstrom

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“Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken”
“I don't try to hide sex in my music. Music is very sexual. I don't hide it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Rick James from Apr 27, 2015
“It’s really important to understand that God is not an impersonal force. Even though He is invisible, God is personal and He has all the characteristics of a person. He knows, he hears, he feels and he speaks.”
“We've got wars. Imagine having more money, you could buy more beer. Have you been to Dublin in its heyday like in the boom heyday at like 4:00 in the morning on a Sunday or Saturday? It's like beyond New Orleans. It's like St. Patrick's Day every day. It's not good. I don't even like pubs anymore. I like going for a meal and having a bottle of wine. Be more gentle.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“It is probable that the lemon is the most valuable of all fruit for preserving health.”

Source : Maud Grieve (1971). “A Modern Herbal: The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs, & Trees with All Their Modern Scientific Uses”, p.475, Courier Corporation
“The secret studies of an author are the sunken piers upon which is to rest the bridge of his fame, spanning the dark waters of oblivion. They are out of sight, but without them no superstructure can stand secure.”
“While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.”
“We shouldn't even get paid for this game. I'm not trying to take anything away from the Bobcats, they played a heck of a game, but we feel like we are at another level. I felt like we were the expansion team tonight. I'm thoroughly embarrassed.”
“To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.”
“My life's work has been to prompt others and be forgotten. Remember that night when Christian came to your balcony? That moment sums up my life. While I was below in the shadows, others climbed up to kiss the sweet rose.”