Top 786 Documentary Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
I have watched a documentary on Caster Semenya. I am inspired by how she made a comeback.
Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.
'The Look' is my first documentary, and I enjoyed the freedom of working within a small team.
You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens.
I would love to direct a documentary film if any good subject comes my way.
I'm a documentary filmmaker, I know what it means to craft a story, especially when you've shot a lot of material.
Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.
I have taken advantage of my husband, to the extent that I even got HBO to do a documentary with me.
Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.
Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.
I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.
News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.
The word 'archive' seems so reassuring, but I have a lot ofconcern over the longevity of documentary materials.
In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.
Like theatre, crafting a documentary film takes tremendous commitment, patience and passion.
I would say one of my favorite books is 'Blood Brothers,' a documentary about Malcolm X.
Documentary makers use other people's lives as their raw material, and that is morally indefensible.
It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.
How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?
I spoke to my father about making a documentary on him. I have been seriously contemplating that.
I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.
I always wanted to be in movies, but I never thought that in a million years there would be a documentary about my life.
I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.
All too often, white documentary filmmakers are the ones telling the stories of people of color.
When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary film was.
We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.
Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.
Whenever I watch a documentary about the space, I find the news in the world very funny and dull!
Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?
Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.
Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.
I am particularly pleased to see that there are so many women working in documentary film.
I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.
When I'm not singing, I'm a lot of persons: I'm a producer. I'm a badminton player. I'm a writer. I'm a movie freak. I'm a documentary maker.
When I'm filming a documentary, I feel like I should be the straight man, watching with a raised eyebrow.
There was no model how to make a documentary production company work. I figured it out as I went along.
And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.
The worst thing that can happen to a comedian is to do a documentary on your life and you're watching it with an audience and there's not a laugh.
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.
I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
The first thing that I ever made was a documentary that I shot... in downtown L.A. about a group of homeless people.
I think the documentary is something that people are hungry for, that it embodies careful thought, nuance.
I watched a documentary called 'Plastic Oceans' on Netflix, and it was an eye-opener for me.
A bad historian is even more dangerous than dead documentary wood.
I'll sit down for 'Stranger Things' or 'The Handmaid's Tale' - or a really good documentary.
A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.
There's something about the lack of certainty with a documentary, which is exhausting if you do three in a row. It's nerve-wracking.
All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.
As a documentary filmmaker, I couldn't afford to give my children the lifestyle I had in San Francisco growing up.
I was a documentary film-maker for 26 years before I became a full time actor.
Kadamban' is not a documentary, although it's set in a tribal backdrop. There's dancing and a whole lot of entertainment.
Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.
Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.
My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.
The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.
You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.
When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.
There is a porous membrane between a documentary that doesn't use interviews and what you would call a neorealist hybrid film.
