Documentaries Quotes - Page 3

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

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

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

I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.

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.

I always remember what Bob Dylan said in that [Martin] Scorsese documentary on him. When he was asked about Joan Baez's complaints about the way he treated her when they were together, Dylan laughed and said, "It's impossible to be in love and wise at the same time."

[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)

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

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

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

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.

I love those documentaries where everyone is fabulous and always perfect.

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.

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.

A good film is also a documentary

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.

I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.

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.

The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the subjects consciously direct themselves to bring forward hidden information that is not normally displayed on the surface.

No one likes documentaries.

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

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.

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

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.