Quotes about Documentary

Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility. Votes: 3

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed. Votes: 3

News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite. Votes: 3

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive. Votes: 3

Documentary filmmaking has all the challenges and hardships of narrative filmmaking without any of the infrastructure or support. That's both a blessing and a curse. Votes: 3

Okay, 'Best Party Ever' -- to me, that's like saying 'Best Gym Ever' or 'Best Nature Documentary Ever,' like how good can it really be? Votes: 3

[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928) Votes: 3

This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director. Votes: 3

Documentary: That's a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Votes: 3

Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by leaving it behind. (It is them, not us.) Votes: 3

Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world. Votes: 3

Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist. Votes: 3

I'm Ready to Die without a Reasonable Doubt Smoke Chronic and hit it Doggystyle before I go out. Until they sign my Death Certificate, All Eyez on Me I'm still at it, Illmatic, and that's The Documentary. Votes: 3

Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world. Votes: 3

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity. Votes: 2

Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch? Votes: 2

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker. Votes: 2

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. Votes: 2

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction. Votes: 2

We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second. Votes: 2

Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week. Votes: 2

'America 24/7' will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I was completely intrigued by what these people put their bodies through. Votes: 2

I'm a documentary image maker, still and moving, because keeping the real world on the agenda is really important at a time when we're increasingly disconnected from parts of the world on whom we depend. Votes: 2

With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories. Votes: 2

But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the onset - that you are investigating, with a camera, and the story emerges as you go along. Votes: 2

It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales. Votes: 2

I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx. Votes: 2

I agreed to film after my rookie year in Golden State. I was more used to cameras and felt that my journey to the NBA was a story worth sharing. Little did we know how much bigger the platform and documentary would become after Linsanity. Votes: 2

I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the editing room that's shaped by getting to know the person and digging deeper, unpeeling the layers of them as you get to know them. Votes: 2

In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.' Votes: 2

I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to it and first-person camera view that is a new thing for me. I've done some stuff like that before, but nothing like the extent of this and digitally. Votes: 2

For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also to make sure the right people hear it. When you photograph somebody who is in pain or discomfort, they trust you to make sure the images will act as their advocate. Votes: 2

I left acting for a couple of years to found my company, Wayfarer, and the first project I did was this documentary series I created called 'My Last Days' to remind us that our time is limited and to inspire us to do more and to be the best selves that we can be. Votes: 2

I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,' which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film, and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it. Votes: 2

Independent documentary isn't beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. It's a pathway to renegade, independent reporting in an in-depth, investigative fashion, and it can do so with a compassionate lens; it allows people to speak in a way that is more human than the mainstream media approach. Votes: 2

My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don't make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and I'm aware of the fact that memory is fallible, that if I had access to films or some absolute documentary evidence of what happened, it might look different; we get confused and fuzzy. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.' Votes: 2

A good film is also a documentary Votes: 0

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well. Votes: 0

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph. Votes: 0

I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer. Votes: 0

Fear is not a word in my football documentary. Votes: 0

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. Votes: 0

Reality TV has ruined people's ability to watch documentary. Votes: 0

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose. Votes: 0

My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me. Votes: 0

I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists. Votes: 0

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. Votes: 0

Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain. Votes: 0

As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,. Votes: 0

The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time. Votes: 0

If I weren't making documentary films, I suppose I'd be teaching. Votes: 0

We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary. Votes: 0

I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together. Riveting! Votes: 0

Like theatre, crafting a documentary film takes tremendous commitment, patience and passion. Votes: 0

The great documentary subjects find you, you don't really search for them. Votes: 0

Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary. Votes: 0

I want to do a documentary about strippers, 'cause it's a moneymaker. Votes: 0

It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary. Votes: 0

There's an amazing documentary, 'The Day After Trinity,' which is crazy good. Votes: 0

These people [the Christians] watched the Flintstones as if it were a documentary. Votes: 0

I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it. Votes: 0

Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries. Votes: 0

A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen. Votes: 0

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion. Votes: 0

If everyone knows so much about it, why do they need to make a documentary? Votes: 0

Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room. Votes: 0

There's always the question when you're making a documentary if the talking heads will work. Votes: 0

A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free. Votes: 0

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another. Votes: 0

When I look back at the way that I was in that documentary I cringe. Votes: 0

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me. Votes: 0

I am particularly pleased to see that there are so many women working in documentary film. Votes: 0

In some ways, the documentary form is a kind of trap and so is societal norms. Votes: 0

Joe Berlinger's documentary 'Whitey' is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can't take your eyes off the screen. Votes: 0

With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of. Votes: 0

Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling. Votes: 0

I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that. Votes: 0

Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it. Votes: 0

I think the documentary is something that people are hungry for, that it embodies careful thought, nuance. Votes: 0

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary. Votes: 0

Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism. Votes: 0

The Look' is my first documentary, and I enjoyed the freedom of working within a small team. Votes: 0

When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary film was. Votes: 0

Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn. Votes: 0

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there. Votes: 0

I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is. Votes: 0

And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money. Votes: 0

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that. Votes: 0

I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place. Votes: 0

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer. Votes: 0

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever. Votes: 0

It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans. Votes: 0

Theatre is filled w/ passion, risk and drama (as much behind-the-curtain as on stage), perfect ingredients for documentary storytelling. Votes: 0

Whenever I watch a documentary about the space, I find the news in the world very funny and dull! Votes: 0

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew. Votes: 0

That's my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind. Votes: 0

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history. Votes: 0

I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work. Votes: 0

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything. Votes: 0

There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like. Votes: 0

Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them. Votes: 0

America 24/7' will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age. Votes: 0

Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s. Votes: 0

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity. Votes: 0

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject. Votes: 0

Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary. Votes: 0

When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit. Votes: 0

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories. Votes: 0

I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things. Votes: 0

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism. Votes: 0

In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role. Votes: 0

Two remarkable men -- one young, one old -- fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On. Votes: 0

The thing about documentary is that you don't really choose your subjects: they come and grab you out of your bed. Votes: 0

I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all. Votes: 0

For a documentary it's so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film Votes: 0

Stay humble to the craft and never forget how much it actually takes to be the main character of a documentary. Votes: 0

The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve. Votes: 0

How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't think you make documentary films to get your country house. If you're trying to gamble on that, you've very foolish. Votes: 0

Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways. Votes: 0

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations... Votes: 0

Sometimes my fashion pictures can look a little bit like documentary style pictures. So having a camera in my hand was normal. Votes: 0

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary. Votes: 0

Thhe essence of documentary filmmaking is how you manipulate the material to create an emotional impact, as opposed to just delivering information. Votes: 0

I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography. Votes: 0

You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced. Votes: 0

You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens. Votes: 0

Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context. Votes: 0

By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary. Votes: 0

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned. Votes: 0

I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive. Votes: 0

Whenever I'm making a feature film, I wish I were filming a documentary, because making feature films is so stressful. It happens every time. Votes: 0

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 option. Votes: 0

It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a documentary moment. Votes: 0

The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say. Votes: 0

It's the best - combining the mediums of television, documentary, and books, to give you this transmedia experience for kids, for families, and for teachers. Votes: 0

On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary. Votes: 0

The Black Power Mixtape is a documentary, first of all. It brings us closer to the voices we heard at that particular point in time. Votes: 0

Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all its brutal reality. Votes: 0

When I'm able to bring together the two worlds that I love so much - film and TV - is a documentary feature, it's nirvana! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The Frighteners. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Especially when you talk about the power of documentary filmmaking, you can't really have a slant; financially, you can't have a slant on the end goals. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I use people's real voices because I want realism. So often I mention the actors' physicality because I want it to be like a real documentary. Votes: 0

We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico. Votes: 0

As an actor, your text is your bible, so you're not making a documentary, but you still have to follow the choices made by your writer. Votes: 0

Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Why movie and dance critics are taking 'The Company' seriously, I can't imagine. Are they impressed by Altman's reputation and naive sincerity? By the fluid semi-documentary approach? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things. Votes: 0

I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been on the field. Votes: 0

I watched this documentary on Madonna. I remember I grew up hearing she wanted to rule the world. Actually, she worked really hard - really, really hard. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future. Votes: 0

I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng were very helpful. Votes: 0

There's nothing attractive about doing a documentary. Nothing. It's hard, hard work, and I find having all the attention of the day on me a very unattractive proposition. Votes: 0

In documentary you sometimes see the tyranny of the linear, but what I've noticed in the last ten years in narrative film is the tyranny of the non-linear. Votes: 0

I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography. Votes: 0

I think the reality-show format is brilliant, has endless possibilities. It's documentary! But unfortunately, it's rarely executed well. So it becomes just a scripted show, but without actors. Votes: 0

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story. Votes: 0

Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual literal truth of an event. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've always loved Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and I watched the Petty documentary 'Running Down A Dream'. I was directly influenced, it made me want to go write. Votes: 0

Making the documentary was an extraordinary experience and it really hit home to me the quasi-religious nature of this anthropogenic global warming cause. These people really have found religion. Votes: 0

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. Votes: 0

It is clear from both documentary and archaeological sources that conspicuous display and consumption of wealth was fundamental for an elite male to maintain power and position in society. Votes: 0

A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life, emotional, documentary-style, not big and cinematic and ultimately like the kind of movie I wanted to make. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there. Votes: 0

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation. Votes: 0

As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about as good as it gets for me. Votes: 0

Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Investigative journalism has been relegated to a very, very tiny space in America. We don't really have much investigative journalism left. And the last refuge for it is documentary filmmaking. Votes: 0

It's not exactly an interview that's going on [in documentary]. I guess we do ask Edward Snowden some questions and we're recording him answering them and so on like that. Votes: 0

The work of WikiLeaks is with principal documentary evidence; that's where the truth lies. It gets to the heart of the matter. It educates people and in turn empowers them. Votes: 0

Miramax didn't introduce the actors at any of the screenings. That's why a lot of people thought 'Kids' was a documentary. I still meet people who think it was real. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it has all of those built-in challenges. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Stories have a special way of putting us inside the people, inside the boots of the soldiers. You're absorbed in a way a documentary or nonfiction can't do for you. Votes: 0

People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in order to make something good you need time. Votes: 0

It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the million that they don't have to make their film. Votes: 0

I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

If you care about the 2012 election and value the voices of regular Americans who lost hope in their hope and change candidate, this is one documentary you won't want to miss. Votes: 0

Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day. Votes: 0

The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding the images based on what happens, as it happens. Votes: 0

If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as you can get in a narrative form. Votes: 0

Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing. Votes: 0

Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp. Votes: 0

Maybe if I found something I was really passionate about, which is entirely possible, I would make another documentary, but it's not a good career choice for anybody. I don't recommend it. Votes: 0

There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the specific muse that inspired "It's Alright Ma" would not return. Votes: 0

What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced unconsciously and even unintentionally and accidentally by the cameraman. Votes: 0

The exposé, the compassion and outrage, of documentary fueled by the dedication to reform has shaded over into combinations of exoticism, tourism, voyeurism, psychologism and metaphysics, trophy hunting - and careerism. Votes: 0

The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me. Documentaries are also cheaper, they are more accessible to make. Votes: 0

I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people. Votes: 0

What's great about documentary, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of 'documentary.' Votes: 0

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world. Votes: 0

But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made. Votes: 0

If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or a few videos on Youtube, and you're good. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But if anyone so much as threatened them because of what Kaia had once done, she would turn the Slumber Party Massacre into Blood, Bath and Beyond, a documentary by Kaia Skyhawk. Votes: 0

You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a script, a lot more start-up resources. It may be self-perpetuating. Votes: 0

Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about. Votes: 0

A lot of the distinctions that we make between drama and documentary are spurious. We're deeply confused about these issues. About the difference between the two, about where documentary ends and drama begins. Votes: 0

Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the timing and the sense of the piece for the theatrical experience. Votes: 0

This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film - these things make me want to let my own imagination fly. Votes: 0

If you think that [Yale professor James] Saiers is in the greenhouse skeptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could go through official AGU channels to get him ousted. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The biggest misconception is that I'm only a documentary filmmaker, but in fact I have made many narrative shorts. My biggest inspirations are narrative films, and that's ultimately where I see myself going next. Votes: 0

I came from a very avant-garde documentary kind of film making world. I like cinema verité, documentaries. I liked non-story, non-character tone poems. And that's the film making that I was interested in. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing one thing when I'm thought to be doing another. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm a huge fan of the Ken Burns documentary style, big time. I love documentaries full stop. I'm a big documentary fan. That's my reality. I don't like reality TV. I like it like that. Votes: 0

So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film. Votes: 0

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor. Votes: 0

Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea that we had to make a movie out of it. Votes: 0

I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought there was no way she'd want to, but then I asked her and she said 'yes.' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this side is not the crux of the matter. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape. There is this breed of gimmicky documentary that is basically a reality show. Votes: 0