Documentaries Quotes - Page 7

I've always intended to eventually make films. I've always been very aware of tone and shots. But documentaries are a great proving ground for me.

At times doc filmmaking feels more rewarding creatively. Because you are creating something out of pure cinema - instead of narrative cinema, where you've got a script and a cast and you build from your foundation, whereas in documentary, you're building out of chaos.

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.

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

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.

There's a plethora of wonderful documentaries. I made a point of not looking at anyone else's portrayal of Henry because I think it would have been too confusing - so I've got a lot of films to look forward to.

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

I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.

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

Every year, I'm depressed that so few of the documentaries I've loved break through.

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

David Irving has consistenly applied an evidential double standard, demanding absolute documentary proof to convict the Germans (as when he sought to show that Hitler was not responsible for the Holocaust), while relying on circumstantial evidence to condemn the British (as in his account of the Allied bombing of Dresden).

Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in

I'd rather lose the small part of the audience that is going to be insulted because a documentary shouldn't have music than the big part of the audience that kind of gives itself over to the scene.

Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.

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

I have always felt that documentaries are an opportunity for me to witness a world that I know nothing about.

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

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.

I love going on BBC6 and BBC7 and listening to documentaries.

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

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

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.

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.

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