Top 1200 Documentary Photography Quotes & Sayings - Page 10
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
I just love the world of photography.
But O, Photography! as no art is,
Faithful and disappointing!
You are not a photographer because you are interested in photography.
Photography helps people to see.
Photography is a love affair with life.
People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.
I am a huge obsessor with photography.
When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.
It's rare in a documentary film that you have a repetitive act. So when you do, you can shoot it in different ways so that you have more choices when you're sitting down to edit that sequence six months later.
Why movie and dance critics are taking 'The Company' seriously, I can't imagine. Are they impressed by Altman's reputation and naive sincerity? By the fluid semi-documentary approach?
In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
Photography is an empathy towards the world.
Photography has taken me from isolation.
An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.
I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a documentary filmmaker and worked for German television, I was of course fascinated by what he did.
Photography is the art of not pushing the button.
I never read about photography.
I have two sisters that are directors: one's in documentary, one's in film. My mother was a writer and a painter, so I've been surrounded since childhood by dynamic women and female voices in arts.
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.
Grain is the brush stroke of photography.
Nobody can commit photography alone.
The thing about documentary is that you don't really choose your subjects: they come and grab you out of your bed.
I would love to study photography.
I take a lot of pride in my photography.
Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.
Especially when you talk about the power of documentary filmmaking, you can't really have a slant; financially, you can't have a slant on the end goals.
Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance.
My father did advertising photography.
I just don't like to do photography for money.
I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.
Contrast is what makes photography interesting.
Typography can be as exciting as illustration and photography.
I wanted to go to the end of photography.
Photography must be integrated with the story.
Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.
If a film is entertaining, it will work irrespective of anything. It should be entertaining and engaging; otherwise, it becomes a documentary.
All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.
Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.
If I actually invited someone to make a documentary about me, and I said, 'Anything goes', and then I refused to answer any questions, that would be inconsistent.
Photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.
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.
'Panto!' is basically my life. It's not a comedy drama; it's a documentary. I was going to write an autobiography, but I thought I'd write this instead.
With a documentary, you can cut away, you can do jump cuts, cut to a photograph at any point to bridge two scenes.
Making a documentary, there are thousands of choices, all the time: the angles and the pace and the choice of characters, the choice of music.
Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it.
Photography is art when it's used by an artist.
I've got a great collection of photography.
Photography is the product of complete alienation.
I will always make films that champion outsiders, because I still feel like one, even though I'm now governor of the documentary branch of the Academy.
Photography has literally changed my life.
Any nature documentary or TV show will always make you start thinking differently about what surrounds us and how to take care of it.
Photography is a form of time travel.
The fight for photography became my life.
I never really learned photography.
With a free afternoon, I'd probably put on a onesie, find something like a really dark, uncomfortable documentary on Netflix, and order pizza with a lot of ranch on the side.
The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject.
My only interest in photographing is photography.
When you are cleaning, sweeping, swabbing floors and running around for the littlest of things on a shoot for an ad or a documentary, you realize how tough life is behind the camera.
I have gradually confused photography with life.
People may assume 'The Act of Killing' is a historical documentary about what happened in 1965. But our purpose was to expose a present-day regime of fear for what it is.
