Top 786 Documentary Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on November 12, 2024.
My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations.
I didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself.
As a kid, I watched every Madonna documentary and tour. I was obsessed with her - and with any pop star of the '80s.
If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as you can get in a narrative form.
It's the best - combining the mediums of television, documentary, and books, to give you this transmedia experience for kids, for families, and for teachers.
In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day.
A buddy of mine is doing a documentary on decisions, and they're not based on a ton of logic. It's mostly how you relate to them emotionally.
Of course, when you're making a documentary, you don't have actors, but nonetheless, there is a writing process that does take place in the editing room.
My dad had made a documentary called 'The Dream Factory' about MGM, and my whole life, I just wanted to be inside it. And there I was.
The making of the documentary is an involving and collaborative process where you go deeper unlike in movies where you just borrow someone else's script.
A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.
When I'm able to bring together the two worlds that I love so much - film and TV - is a documentary feature, it's nirvana!
The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say.
If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or a few videos on Youtube, and you're good.
As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about as good as it gets for me.
I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.
One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it has all of those built-in challenges.
I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?
Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.
Raman Raghav' was shot on location, but there are many stylistic things in it. I like this mixture of documentary and extreme stylization.
Regardless of the medium, be it television or feature or documentary, I'm not gonna distinguish and worry about my particular canon, whatever that means.
It's not exactly an interview that's going on [in documentary]. I guess we do ask Edward Snowden some questions and we're recording him answering them and so on like that.
In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.
I love Humphrey Jennings. People ask me who my favorite documentary maker is, and he's certainly in the top three.
Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?
By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.
I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.
When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.
Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
The work of WikiLeaks is with principal documentary evidence; that's where the truth lies. It gets to the heart of the matter. It educates people and in turn empowers them.
Joe Berlinger's documentary 'Whitey' is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can't take your eyes off the screen.
I began my filmmaking career by shooting a feature length documentary in China in 2004, the year I graduated from film school.
My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.
Making a documentary about my hometown was always going to be the most difficult topic I had ever covered! No question.
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason.
The Black Power Mixtape is a documentary, first of all. It brings us closer to the voices we heard at that particular point in time.
Two remarkable men -- one young, one old -- fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On.
I'll read a book. I'll watch a documentary or a film or whatever. I'll go to an art exhibit and just try and open myself to influence.
A stand-up comedian who's assaultive and decent and has managed a career that has spanned over five decades deserves a documentary.
Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.
Many people have this memory of traditional TV documentary-making that aims to portray pure reality, and I just don't see that as the only option.
As a documentary filmmaker, 'Meru' was an irresistible challenge. You can spend years searching for the right story, but this one had all the elements: the obstacles, the characters, and the drama.
There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.
It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.
Stay humble to the craft and never forget how much it actually takes to be the main character of a documentary.
I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures.
The documentary genre, shows like 'Making a Murderer' and 'The Jinx' on HBO, there's been a whole raft of long-form docs.
I am obsessed with John Mayer. I love him. I just think he's so talented. I have his documentary in my iTunes. I watch it all the time.
I don't think you make documentary films to get your country house. If you're trying to gamble on that, you've very foolish.
Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all its brutal reality.
Thhe essence of documentary filmmaking is how you manipulate the material to create an emotional impact, as opposed to just delivering information.
I like to watch movies - I just saw the documentary about Amy Winehouse, which was very good and emotional.
Theatre is filled w/ passion, risk and drama (as much behind-the-curtain as on stage), perfect ingredients for documentary storytelling.
I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office.
Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.
The great thing about 'The Exorcist' is it's dead serious horror. No comedy, no self-reference, it's a documentary style.
I was asked to perform at the Olympics Opening Ceremony. But I was up a tree in Borneo filming a documentary about Alfred Russel Wallace! So it couldn't be done.
It's weird writing for a documentary because I have all these ideas for what I want to happen, but what actually happens is obviously completely different.
I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.
