Documentary Quotes - page 4

Systems transfer or transform materials, energy or information - and usually all three. An information system is one whose prime function is to transfer or transform information: the telephone system is an obvious example. This book concentrates on certain types of information system: those concerned with the transfer of information between specialists, mainly with reference to their work, and mainly based on documents. The focus is thus on specialised documentary information systems. (Brian Campbell Vickery)
The most important characteristic of documentary classification is that it is concerned with subjects, not just entities of taxonomic classification. What is the nature of the specific subjects - the themes on which books, parts of books, articles or parts of articles are written? A study of book titles alone would suggest that literary subjects have simple names like 'War, Religion', 'Boats', 'Musica; pitch', 'Colour', 'Acridines', 'Wild flowers', and so on. But the study of articles on the documentation level reveals that such titles are simple in appearance only. Such a literary subject is in reality a complex aggregate of specific subjects, eahc which is the main theme discussed from one particular aspect. View quote
Brian Campbell Vickery
Machines change their style so rapidly. If one tries to reproduce them in art as realistically as man and the horse in classical art, one immediately lapses into a kind of anecdotic or documentary art... Only the stylisation of a painter like Leger could integrate the machine as the subject matter of art. Here in Italy, the futurists, before 1914, attempted a similar integration of the machine.... César [French sculptor, in the generation of Marini] creates with elements borrowed from industry and the world of machines, sculptural fossils that appear to have survived the same kind of catastrophe as my own figures. But I would like to show you [ interviewer w:Eduard Roditi now in my studio my latest fossils.. View quote
Marino Marini
Getting involved in Earthlings was pretty intense because there were still a lot of things I didn't know. To raise compassion and awareness is so necessary. The documentary is not just about animals, it's about how we treat each other as well. How we have empathy for the weak and we don't abuse it. It exposes the truth. It is a very difficult film to get into mainstream because there are so many corporations that will hurt if their secrets revealed. View quote
Persia White
I was pretty health-conscious even before going vegan. The transition came after I watched Food, Inc. and a documentary called GMO OMG. View quote
Wilson Chandler
We saw that amazing documentary 'Forks Over Knives' and that cleared everything up for us. Every Sunday we're going to the farmers market now, getting our fresh fruits and veggies. It's just two weeks, but we feel much better. I love animals. I don't want to eat them. View quote
Carrie Ann Inaba
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. View quote
Ann Macbeth
I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work. View quote
Arnon Goldfinger
The last reunion was a bit of a rushed job, we had to do a gig and documentary. View quote
Brian Harvey
I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that. View quote
Chris Lilley
Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date. (Cilla Black)
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. View quote
Criss Angel
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history. View quote
Catherine Opie
The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time. View quote
Dana Snyder
Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain. View quote
Frank Portman
We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico. View quote
Gael Garcia Bernal
'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary. View quote
Grant Heslov
I would encourage people that, if you are waiting for the end of 'The Office,' to re-tune in right away. It is the beginning of the end, where we start to break down what's going on with this documentary and see behind the scenes with who is involved. View quote
Greg Daniels
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. View quote
Howard Shore
I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there. View quote
Jamie Bell
Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week. (Jason Reitman)
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries. View quote
Jeremy Northam
The video for 'Whatever' is kind of a documentary in a way. It's showing that love can last. Not just in your early 20s or your late 30s, but in your 50s, 60s and 70s. There's an awful myth out there that when you get married, love and lovemaking fade. It's not true. View quote
Jill Scott
Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the newspaper or turn on the radio or watch the news on TV there is another documentary subject. We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there? View quote
Jonathan Demme
Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about. View quote
Jonathan Demme