Documentaries Quotes

That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think.

I love those documentaries where everyone is fabulous and always perfect.

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.

Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.

I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but it's difficult to find backing for them.

There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling.

No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as discreet as possible, and flexible enough to be able to capture the moment when it happens. I know from documentary how to not have a preconceived idea of what the scene could be.

I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at.

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

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.

So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.

Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.

I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

I hate making TV documentaries.