Quotes by Documentaries I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion. Mike Mills documentaries believe reality 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 documentaries real thinking Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed. Naomi Wolf documentary-films documentaries risk 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 documentaries choices-made actors 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 documentaries book thinking 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 documentaries want looks There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling. Owen Hart documentaries right-now wrestling 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-films documentaries years 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 documentaries chaos order Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction. Philip Seymour Hoffman documentaries kind fiction [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 documentaries photography artist 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 documentaries two fiction 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 documentaries fiction years Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries. Pirjo Honkasalo documentaries subjective lying 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 documentaries film done 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 documentaries doe facts 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 documentaries assistants lying 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 documentaries wise together 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 documentaries tvs reality «12345678910»