Quotes by Documentaries I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion. Mike Mills documentariesbelievereality I'm not somebody who comes in with a whole outline, and says, "Here's the movie we're going to make." That's not what a documentary is for me. I think a documentary is about capturing events as they unfold in real time. Morgan Spurlock documentariesrealthinking Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed. Naomi Wolf documentary-filmsdocumentariesrisk As an actor, your text is your bible, so you're not making a documentary, but you still have to follow the choices made by your writer. Natalie Dormer documentarieschoices-madeactors I think most albums deserve a documentary because [an album] is a visual book. You don't have to read up on it because you can listen and watch the whole story. I would love to see lots of albums [become films.] Nas documentariesbookthinking My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me. Noel Redding documentaries Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. Norman Jewison documentarieswantlooks There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling. Owen Hart documentariesright-nowwrestling When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out. Pamela Yates documentary-filmsdocumentariesyears From film to film, even documentaries, I was learning the medium and learning how to bring form into some kind of relationship with the content, how to work it, and above all, how to create some kind of order out of chaos. Pawel Pawlikowski documentarieschaosorder Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction. Philip Seymour Hoffman documentarieskindfiction [Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928) Pierre Mac Orlan documentariesphotographyartist It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the million that they don't have to make their film. Pirjo Honkasalo documentariestwofiction I had worked in fiction a lot before I started making documentaries, but when I was around 32 or 33-years-old I suddenly got so fed up with the world of fiction, which is so money-centered. Pirjo Honkasalo documentariesfictionyears Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries. Pirjo Honkasalo documentariessubjectivelying When the American documentary filmmaker Donn Alan Pennebaker wanted to do a film on Dylan, Dylan asked him what he'd already done, and Pennebaker answered, Nothing except shots in the street. Dylan asked to see them, and he agreed to let him do the film. Raymond Depardon documentariesfilmdone I suppose the primary intention of a documentary photographer is to document facts. My work often does this but it is not the primary intention. My intention is to make the best pictorial image I can. Richard Billingham documentariesdoefacts I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks... lying that I knew how to drive a truck... and doing commercials and documentaries. Richard Donner documentariesassistantslying I always remember what Bob Dylan said in that [Martin] Scorsese documentary on him. When he was asked about Joan Baez's complaints about the way he treated her when they were together, Dylan laughed and said, "It's impossible to be in love and wise at the same time." Richard Gere documentarieswisetogether You see reality TV and it's not reality TV. It's contrived and everything is plotted and scripted nearly. Documentaries are the same and just as bad. Ricky Gervais documentariestvsreality«12345678910»
