Top Documentaries Quotes Collection

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Image of Robin Tunney
After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like
- Robin Tunney
Collection: Documentaries
Image of Stephanie Coontz
Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.
- Stephanie Coontz
Collection: Documentaries
Image of Eric Rohmer
A good film is also a documentary
- Eric Rohmer
Collection: Documentaries
Image of Robert Conquest
You made a point about proof. In this sort of history we do nt have proof... Yet... the incontrovertibility of the evidence can be plain even when it is not documentary or complete.
- Robert Conquest
Collection: Documentaries
Image of Simon Norfolk
A picture that is ghostly and silent can be more eloquent and less clichéd than a noisier photo-journalistic approach and I have attempted to make pictures that whilst they are not documentary in the traditional sense, they are still documents, like forensic traces.
- Simon Norfolk
Collection: Documentaries
Image of Catherine Opie
I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.
- Catherine Opie
Collection: Documentaries
Image of Janet Maslin
Bizarrely funny... Rarely is a documentary as well attuned to its subject as Howard Brookner's BURROUGHS, which captures as much about the life, work and sensibility of its subject as its 86 minute format allows.
- Janet Maslin
Collection: Documentaries
Image of Michael Apted
I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things.
- Michael Apted
Collection: Documentaries
Image of Lauren Greenfield
I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.
- Lauren Greenfield
Collection: Documentaries
Image of George Ratliff
I've always intended to eventually make films. I've always been very aware of tone and shots. But documentaries are a great proving ground for me.
- George Ratliff
Collection: Documentaries
Image of Jeremy Coon
The great documentary subjects find you, you don't really search for them.
- Jeremy Coon
Collection: Documentaries
Image of Robert Greene
It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a documentary moment.
- Robert Greene
Collection: Documentaries
Image of Bill Burr
I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.
- Bill Burr
Collection: Documentaries
Image of Robert Greene
In some ways, the documentary form is a kind of trap and so is societal norms.
- Robert Greene
Collection: Documentaries
Image of Wayne White
Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure.
- Wayne White
Collection: Documentaries
Image of Darren Aronofsky
Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in
- Darren Aronofsky
Collection: Documentaries
Image of Werner Herzog
For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.
- Werner Herzog
Collection: Documentaries