Documentaries Quotes

I love documentaries and I watch documentaries to no end.

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema and documentaries.

When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out.

It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the million that they don't have to make their film.

I had worked in fiction a lot before I started making documentaries, but when I was around 32 or 33-years-old I suddenly got so fed up with the world of fiction, which is so money-centered.

In all my documentaries I did all the camera work, but in fiction I didn't want to do it myself. I think the machinery is so heavy and demanding that you would leave the actors alone for a long time.

The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me. Documentaries are also cheaper, they are more accessible to make.

You see reality TV and it's not reality TV. It's contrived and everything is plotted and scripted nearly. Documentaries are the same and just as bad.

In some ways, the documentary form is a kind of trap and so is societal norms.

It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a documentary moment.

I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.

Even the best documentaries reach tens of thousands in their cinematic window. I believe that by launching online, we could potentially reach millions.

There have been so many stories about alcoholism and drugs. Eating disorders are also a form of abuse, but rarely a theme in feature films that aren't documentaries.

I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.

I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.

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

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

I'm a massive sucker for music documentaries.

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

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.

Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.

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 love documentaries, I like observing real people.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.