Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Hopper

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

Ed Cunningham

You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens.

Jamie Bell

I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

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.

Catherine Opie

I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.

Edward Norton

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Anna Deavere Smith

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

Don DeLillo

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

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

A good film is also a documentary

Chris Lilley

I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.

Jonathan Demme

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

Lauren Greenfield

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

Meshell Ndegeocello

I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.

Michael Pena

I love documentaries and I watch documentaries to no end.

Skrillex

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

Michael Moore

We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary.

Michael Moore

Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me.

Michael Moore

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

Noel Redding

My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.

Martin Parr

I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

Michael Moore

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

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.

Stephen Mangan

I'm a massive sucker for music documentaries.

Stephanie Coontz

Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.

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

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 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 Zemeckis

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

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.

Terry Zwigoff

Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.