Top 786 Documentary Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.
I have learned that documentary makers are incredibly sneaky people.
I could probably do a documentary on acting classes; I've taken so many.
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
I want to do a documentary about strippers, 'cause it's a moneymaker.
Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
I've been promoting the idea of a Jimmie Rodgers documentary for years.
In a drama, the camera doesn't exist. In a documentary, it does.
Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.
A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.
As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,.
When you make a documentary, you have to adapt to what reality imposes upon you.
Singing for a documentary that benefits the underprivileged remains one of my biggest dreams.
There's always the question when you're making a documentary if the talking heads will work.
The magic of documentary is that I keep being surprised and amazed by the things I film.
My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.
I could really sink my teeth into a David Bowie documentary.
My brother made a whole documentary of my life. It's a long story.
There's an amazing documentary, 'The Day After Trinity,' which is crazy good.
With documentary, you just pick up a camera and start.
I've always been a fan of these travel shows and documentary series.
I'm a happy person! I guess I'm not as much of a pessimist as most documentary filmmakers.
'The Look of Silence' was an unforgettable, chilling documentary.
I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
As a documentary filmmaker, I try to be sensitive to my subjects.
I never wanted to do a documentary or write a book.
I feel like directorial teams aren't quite as uncommon in documentary.
My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
I'm not trying to acquire a reputation as serious documentary maker for its own sake.
I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.
I don't know if I'd mastered that documentary format, but I wanted to move on from it.
I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together. Riveting!
The part of television I like are things that have a documentary feel to them.
These people [the Christians] watched the Flintstones as if it were a documentary.
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.
People never read my books for the quality of the documentary value.
Documentary films have always been my passion, I have done documentaries.
I feel like there's a lot of sympathy and camaraderie among documentary filmmakers.
In film, I believe things should either be documentary or drama.
I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.
That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all.
I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.
When I look back at the way that I was in that documentary I cringe.
I had my own documentary that I filmed in D.C., which is where I'm from.
The great documentary subjects find you, you don't really search for them.
Reality TV has ruined people's ability to watch documentary.
In some ways, the documentary form is a kind of trap and so is societal norms.
I can do a documentary on myself, and it would be, like, 10 minutes.
Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.
We should not confuse having a Flip camera with making a documentary.
I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.
Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.
The last reunion was a bit of a rushed job, we had to do a gig and documentary.
No one has a green light when they start a documentary - not ever.
I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.
Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries.
The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
Most women I know are not actresses, but they work for the U.N. or are documentary filmmakers, anthropologists.
