Quotes by Documentaries No one likes documentaries. Alex Gibney documentarieslikes In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life. Alfred Hitchcock documentariesdirectorsfiction My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on. Andrew Davies documentarieslikeswife As I get older it gets harder and harder to hold on to the ephemeral excitement. When a documentary, or a screenplay, or even just a brainstorming session is going well I get to experience sense of hope, and expansiveness, even if it's just for a moment. Andrew Neel documentariesexcitementephemeral I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that. Anna Deavere Smith documentariesfilmmakerresources The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the subjects consciously direct themselves to bring forward hidden information that is not normally displayed on the surface. Arthur Tress documentariesinformationwindow In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out. Ava DuVernay truth-will-come-outdocumentariesnarrative The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found the truth in the stories I was telling as a doc, I could teach myself filmmaking through doc filmmaking. Ava DuVernay documentariesstorieslong When you see the documentary, you'll see that there were parallels. Michael and I both wanted Daniel Craig, and it was the same as it was for Cubby and Harry when they wanted Sean [Connery]. The studio wanted a star and wanted an American, and wanted this and that, but they determined, "No, it's Sean Connery." Barbara Broccoli documentariesdeterminedstars I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form and take you on a journey. Barry Levinson documentariesjourneylong Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world. Beaumont Newhall documentariesgivingfacts Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn. Bela Fleck documentariesshould-havemade I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding the images based on what happens, as it happens. Benjamin Avila documentariescamerasdirectors Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document. Berenice Abbott documentariesphotographerworld 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 documentariesalbumsband I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all. Brian Lindstrom lineardocumentariesthinking If I weren't making documentary films, I suppose I'd be teaching. Brian Lindstrom documentary-filmsdocumentariesteaching I love going on BBC6 and BBC7 and listening to documentaries. Burn Gorman documentarieslistening A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film as being an absolute version of the truth. Cate Blanchett documentariesrealpeople The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history. Catherine Opie documentariesphotographerideas12345678910»
