Quotes and Sayings About Documentaries
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I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.
-- Arnon Goldfinger -
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 the truth will come out.
-- Ava DuVernay -
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.
-- Berenice Abbott -
I personally can watch an eight-hour documentary on Woody Allen because I'm fascinated by him. But, an audience can't really sit through more than two and a half hours on any movie. It doesn't matter if Marlon Brando came back from the dead. It's just impossible.
-- Brett Ratner -
I love going on BBC6 and BBC7 and listening to documentaries.
-- Burn Gorman -
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.
-- Catherine Opie -
Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.
-- Chris Lilley -
I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.
-- Chris Lilley -
With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of.
-- Chris Shiflett -
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.
-- Cilla Black -
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.
-- Clive James -
We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.
-- Colin Mochrie -
The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
-- Dana Snyder -
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
-- Daniel Berrigan -
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
-- Darren Aronofsky -
David Irving has consistenly applied an evidential double standard, demanding absolute documentary proof to convict the Germans (as when he sought to show that Hitler was not responsible for the Holocaust), while relying on circumstantial evidence to condemn the British (as in his account of the Allied bombing of Dresden).
-- David Cannadine -
As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,.
-- David Dixon -
Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.
-- David Riesman -
When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum in the 1950s, shooting film.
-- David Suchet -
To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.
-- Dennis Hopper -
People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.
-- Derek Jarman -
A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
-- Dorothea Lange -
A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.
-- Dorothy B. Porter -
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.
-- Dougray Scott -
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.
-- Edward Norton -
Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.
-- Frank Portman -
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.
-- Geri Halliwell -
Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.
-- Griffin Dunne -
Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.
-- Gus Van Sant
