Documentaries Quotes - Page 2

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.

Fear is not a word in my football documentary.

...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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks... lying that I knew how to drive a truck... and doing commercials and documentaries.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.