Documentaries Quotes - Page 4

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

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

I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

After I got kicked out of CalArts, I moved to Lawrence Kansas where my sister lived. I began working on A William S. Burroughs documentary. I had no idea it would turn into such a big film.

I had a very short time on that film [The Possibilities Are Endless] and it was quite strange because the process was kind of like a documentary, which was different for me. The way everything was filmed was very casual.

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.

It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.

Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure.

I love documentaries, I like observing real people.

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

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.

I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if its worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way.

Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.

I'm a massive sucker for music documentaries.

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

The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.