Top 1200 Documentary Photography Quotes & Sayings - Page 12
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand.
Sometimes my fashion pictures can look a little bit like documentary style pictures. So having a camera in my hand was normal.
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up documentary journalism.
Biking and photography are a perfect combination for me.
Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.
My first job in the film business was working as a production assistant, and then a production manager on a documentary about Townes Van Zandt.
Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.
When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
Solutions require action, and one of the things I love most about documentary filmmaking is that it allows for the creation of powerful impact campaigns that can help mobilize people around certain issues.
I'm still hesitant to call myself a journalist. I see myself as a documentary maker who is trusted with hard-hitting current affairs issues.
I had been teaching myself photography.
Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the timing and the sense of the piece for the theatrical experience.
Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.
Photography is a distributive act leading to a privileged condition.
One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.
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.
Those are just some of the people whom we interviewed in the documentary, but that should provide you with a good sense of the credibility of the individuals who bolster the case that this administration lied us into a war.
Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.
Photography is just light remembering itself.
I feel like we're going to see a lot more movies that mix documentary style with fiction, more along the lines of 'District 9.'
Isn't it amazing how photography has advanced without improving.
I love to write and do photography, as a cathartic experience.
My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.
All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
Photography is about being exquisitely present.
Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening.
I like art, photography, film - all that creativity.
I really got into filmmaking through photography.
I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.
Photography and painting, all of that fed into my directing eventually.
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 made three short films of my own which I wrote, produced, directed... you did everything in those days. My favourite one was something I shot on VHS... a little documentary.
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
I'm not a fan of the Eagles, but I've watched their documentary numerous times and everyone who's watched it with me has sung along to the songs, much to my dismay.
Photography is a language more universal than words.
Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening
I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.
I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The Frighteners.
Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.
When I was young, I felt my talent lay in photography, not movies.
Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.
Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.
With photography, I always think that it's not good enough.
I think I came alive when I started photography.
The Netflix thing with Nas is more of a documentary, where we kind of... talk. We go to my neighborhood. You get to see where I'm from and all that. And then, I'm in the studio with Nas.
This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.
Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second.
I've been working with photography for many years.
The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.
For someone like me, making a documentary - I don't kid myself. There's no influence at all. What I do is entertainment. I would even say much the same about the column I write in 'The Sunday Times.'
Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a language, that I can say something through film.
If a documentary crew were to follow me around, they'd probably think they were making a film about the saddest person in the world.
Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.
Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.
I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.
I understood the craft of photography when done by an artist is art.
You made a point about proof. In this sort of history we do nt have proof... Yet... the incontrovertibility of the evidence can be plain even when it is not documentary or complete.
Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.
