Documentary Quotes

Documentary Quote of the day

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.

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

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.

In documentary films, being able to be a storytelling and embrace film as an art form - while being very clearly connected in trying to help make the world a better place - is really important to me.

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.

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

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.

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

I don't think you make documentary films to get your country house. If you're trying to gamble on that, you've very foolish.

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

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

But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made.

Documentary evidence says where there is smoke there is fire, be it holy smoke or otherwise.

The problem is we are not eating food anymore, we are eating food like products. (Hungry For Change Film)

The written word is greatest sacred documentation.

If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.