Documentary Quotes - page 5

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. (Jonathan Demme)
Independent documentary isn't beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. It's a pathway to renegade, independent reporting in an in-depth, investigative fashion, and it can do so with a compassionate lens; it allows people to speak in a way that is more human than the mainstream media approach. View quote
Josh Fox
I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject. View quote
Leslie Cockburn
My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night. View quote
Lee Grant
People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew. View quote
Mark Zupan
'The Look' is my first documentary, and I enjoyed the freedom of working within a small team. View quote
Angelina Maccarone
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility. View quote
Bruce Jackson
The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things. View quote
Bruce Jackson
The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject. View quote
Ben Edwards
When I look back at the way that I was in that documentary I cringe. View quote
Benjamin Cohen
Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary. (Martin Parr)
I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is. View quote
Mary Ellen Mark
And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure. View quote
Maximilian Schell
Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there. View quote
Method Man
And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money. View quote
Michael Patrick Jann
I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it. View quote
Michael Rapaport
I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion. View quote
Mike Mills
My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me. View quote
Noel Redding
Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room. View quote
Nicholas Jarecki
My friends adore 'TOWIE' - the TV documentary series, 'The Only Way is Essex.' They like it, I'm afraid, for the most unworthy of reasons: class mockery. They tune in to wonder in a 'can you believe those people?' way at the natives of Brentwood and Buckhurst Hill. View quote
Peter York
When I hear the word "documentary," I don't think certain things should be left out. You've got to keep it 100 percent as much as you can, unless your group has a meeting beforehand and says, "Yo -- don't say this, 'cause boom, boom, boom." Other than that, it's a documentary so let's document, you know what I mean? (Phife Dawg)
It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans. View quote
Rick Springfield
Those are just some of the people whom we interviewed in the documentary, but that should provide you with a good sense of the credibility of the individuals who bolster the case that this administration lied us into a war. View quote
Robert Greenwald
When I graduated from Brown after majoring in women's studies, I made my first PBS documentary, 'Women of Substance.' My first feature documentary was called 'American Hollow,' which I did for HBO and was at the Sundance Film Festival. View quote
Rory Kennedy
I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch. View quote
Rosie Perez