Top 1200 Documentary Photography Quotes & Sayings - Page 15
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
You see a documentary, you want to see it on Aerosmith or Jon Bon Jovi or Kiss, a band that's been established and sold millions of records and done something notable.
When was the last time you saw a documentary that fundamentally changed the way you think? ...Pandora’s Promise is built around what should be the real liberal agenda: looking at an issue not with orthodoxy, but with open eyes.
But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the onset - that you are investigating, with a camera, and the story emerges as you go along.
I grew up around media so for me I've always been interested in that topic, whether it's a complete satire or a documentary. I love anything that touches on the state of information versus entertainment and what's newsworthy and what's not.
I eat raw vegetables. But my 30 for 30 documentary better include sit-down interviews with Ronald McDonald, Colonel Sanders and Little Debbie.
I don't care about traditional photography. I want more control.
I feel like one of the things that I watched that I felt was really helpful in some way but, more than anything, is worth mentioning was this film 'Boogie Man.' It's a documentary about Lee Atwater.
There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.
The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.
Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.
Photographers undervalue the use of a wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography.
I've watched 'Senna' - a documentary film about a Formula One driver - three or four times now. I'm not a massive Formula One fan but I watch it and think 'God, what a waste.'
Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.
As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.
When I do feature films, I usually have a very strong sense of what I want to do. I have topics and subjects, so I go for it. I even know technically what I want to. But in the case of documentary, the story comes to me.
Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by leaving it behind. (It is them, not us.)
It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.
I'm studying art and photography, like film and digital - a mix of both.
I'm always gonna be an actor, so I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do next. I would love to make a documentary again someday, but I need to take a break from it.
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.
One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.
I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!
I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.
[Photography is] in some ways false just because it is so exact.
I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
I was so used to documentary filming, where it's one take. You can't really say, 'Make that elephant charge again!' And you talk to the camera. With movie filming, you're talking to someone else.
It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales.
The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.
With everything that I've done with YouTube and podcasts for so many years, it's been: you can record it, edit, and then upload that day. With the book and documentary, it's been such a longer process.
The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I was completely intrigued by what these people put their bodies through.
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.
I watched the 'Food, Inc.' documentary and was like, 'This has opened my eyes to the meat industry - maybe I should go vegetarian.' And my friend told me, 'Sadie, you're not gonna last a week.' But I'm very competitive.
I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me. I like the 'let's forget our troubles and have some excitement' approach. I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.
To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression.
I've always loved Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and I watched the Petty documentary 'Running Down A Dream'. I was directly influenced, it made me want to go write.
Maybe today I would call Fred Leuchter and there would be two or three other documentary filmmakers interested in his story simply because of the exposure.
Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.
I think the reality-show format is brilliant, has endless possibilities. It's documentary! But unfortunately, it's rarely executed well. So it becomes just a scripted show, but without actors.
Music, photography, media, film - it's all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it.
In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death.
Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.
In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.
There is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world.
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.
I'm Ready to Die without a Reasonable Doubt
Smoke Chronic and hit it Doggystyle before I go out.
Until they sign my Death Certificate, All Eyez on Me
I'm still at it, Illmatic, and that's The Documentary.
I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture.
I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.
I've always slightly harboured a dream of making a film, a documentary feature. Somehow, I just got into a way of working a routine of making TV docs.
Photography, to me, is the dewdrop that reflects my inner and outer worlds simultaneously.
I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.
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.
I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
Photography can be a way into worlds and memories that words sometimes fail to convey.
I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.
I was a big Belieber. I sent in audition tapes to be in his movies. I recorded myself singing 'One Less Lonely Girl' so I could be one of the fans in his documentary.
Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.
As an actor, your text is your bible, so you're not making a documentary, but you still have to follow the choices made by your writer.
My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.
