Documentaries Quotes

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

Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.

Paradoxically, in the field being a woman actually helps you: people often feel more comfortable talking to women, which is key in documentaries.

Documentaries are unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to people, a narrative always emerges.

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.

I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life.

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

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

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

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

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'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.

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

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.

I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

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.

I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've stood up on the stage and given your speech about the healing power of fiction.

I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is an important issue.

There's always the question when you're making a documentary if the talking heads will work.

I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the 'CBS Evening News.' You could see that the audiences were eroding.

I hate making TV documentaries.

I've done several commercials and I've done voiceovers for documentaries.

The great documentary subjects find you, you don't really search for them.

I’ve long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special.

People still come to Baltimore and say, "I didn't realize you made documentaries."

I mostly like documentaries, so I always think things that happened in real life are so astounding that why would you make a movie about something fake.

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.

Documentaries were necessary for my growth as a person. I grew up very sheltered and it was a form of expressing myself.

That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself.

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

Okay, 'Best Party Ever' -- to me, that's like saying 'Best Gym Ever' or 'Best Nature Documentary Ever,' like how good can it really be?

Joe Berlinger's documentary 'Whitey' is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can't take your eyes off the screen.

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng were very helpful.

In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role.

I'm strictly a movie person. I mean, I watch the HBO documentaries and Netflix.

I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.

Documentaries are my favorite thing, and the more depressing, the better.

I loved watching documentaries and had wanted to try making one for years - I'd just put it off as other opportunities arose. But I felt like time was running out for me if I wanted to do it.

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch and I do love big screen documentaries.

It's not exactly an interview that's going on [in documentary]. I guess we do ask Edward Snowden some questions and we're recording him answering them and so on like that.

I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.

I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things.

I've made many documentaries, but prostitution was the hardest in terms of gaining the trust of the people being filmed.

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary.

Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.

Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me.