Documentaries Quotes

I like to turn on the TV and watch whatever's on. Nick Kroll does that a lot. He doesn't watch important shows. He'll just turn on a documentary on Mia Hamm and watch it for an hour. Whatever's on, we watch.

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.

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

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.

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

I have tried reading the Bible but that's a tough read there. I watch a lot of religious documentaries. I have a keen interest in religion for someone who's not religious.

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

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.

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.

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

I suppose the primary intention of a documentary photographer is to document facts. My work often does this but it is not the primary intention. My intention is to make the best pictorial image I can.

A picture that is ghostly and silent can be more eloquent and less clichéd than a noisier photo-journalistic approach and I have attempted to make pictures that whilst they are not documentary in the traditional sense, they are still documents, like forensic traces.

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.

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

I'm in school every day. It depends on what it is that you do with all that free time when I'm not on the microphone. I'm reading, I'm studying. I love documentaries. I love learning what I don't know. And of course, I wouldn't suggest that particular lane for others.

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.

When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad.

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

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

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

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

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.

News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.

...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.

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

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

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

You made a point about proof. In this sort of history we do nt have proof... Yet... the incontrovertibility of the evidence can be plain even when it is not documentary or complete.

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.

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.

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

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

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

An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

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

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

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

I've been in entertainment, politics, business, business coaching, public affairs, documentaries, programming, news, theater. So, there aren't many things I see that I haven't seen something like that before.

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

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

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.

So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.

I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.

People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.