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.

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.

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

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.

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 documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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