A Quote by Grant Heslov

'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.

Grant Heslov

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Documentary Men Monuments

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Grant Heslov
American - Actor
Born: May 15, 1963

The Greeks, the Italians, and the Indians, from whom we get our ideas, erect monuments to ideas; we erect ours to men, and of such monuments we have an oversupply.

Gutzon Borglum

I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.

Joan Fontcuberta

If you're a great documentary filmmaker, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're a great narrative filmmaker. There are fantastic documentary filmmakers that can't direct actors. You don't have to do that in a documentary, if it's a real documentary.

Alexander Skarsgard

Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.

Antonio Gaudi

Most monuments are not something you're going to keep me out of. And I go to a lot of monuments.

Rob Huebel

America has no monuments to ideas; her monuments are erected to individuals.

Gutzon Borglum

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

John Lothrop Motley

When you're making a real documentary, you shoot it and the movie happens. You don't make - this sounds corny - you don't make a documentary, a documentary makes you. It really does.

Chris Rock

Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.

Don Cheadle

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

Francis Bacon

When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. It should be documentary style, because documentary is police photography of a scene and a murder ... that's a real document. You see, art is really useless, and a document has use. And therefore, art is never a document, but it can adopt that style. I do it. I'm called a documentary photographer. But that presupposes a quite subtle knowledge of this distinction.

Walker Evans

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

Honore de Balzac

Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

Alexander Pope

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?

Karen Essex

a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who raze monuments. d. Publishers: people who sell rubble. e. Readers: people who buy it.