Documentaries Quotes - Page 17

• I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

  Mike Mills

  Believe, Reality, Fiction

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• For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

  Michael Moore

  Filmmaker, Wells

  "Michael Moore, Piers Morgan Clash Over Moore’s Wealth" by Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.

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

  Michael Moore

  Three, Six, Made

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

  Michael Moore

  Needs, Theatrical, Huge

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• I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries.

  Michael Moore

  Thinking, Medicine, Serious

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• I could sit and watch nature documentaries with Jenks and the kids the rest of the night if I wanted. And trust me, watching a dozen pixies scream as a crocodile chomped on a zebra was something not to be missed. They invariably cheered for the crocodile, not the zebra.

  Kim Harrison

  Zebras, Kids, Night

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• I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.

  Michael Rapaport

  Thinking, Documentary Films, Should

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• 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.

  Jonathan Demme

  Fiction, Film, Enthusiastic

  "Jonathan Demme Says 'Zeitoun' Still Need Financing, Talks Adapting Stephen King’s '11/22/63'" by Jeff Otto, www.indiewire.com. June 20, 2012.

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• When I hear the word "documentary," I don't think certain things should be left out. You've got to keep it 100 percent as much as you can, unless your group has a meeting beforehand and says, "Yo -- don't say this, 'cause boom, boom, boom." Other than that, it's a documentary so let's document, you know what I mean?

  Phife Dawg

  Mean, Thinking, Groups

  "A Tribe Called Quest's Phife Dawg and Jarobi On the Beats, Rhymes & Life Beef and Rap Today". Interview with Jen Yamato, movieline.com. July 18, 2011.

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• I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by family values, which so many of these country songs are related to.

  Clifton Collins, Jr.

  Country, Song, Singers

  "EXCLUSIVE: Clifton Collins Jr. Discusses His Burgeoning Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. June 26, 2009.

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• When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

  Sam Neill

  Father, Years, Relief

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• I don't have a horror film in me just because I don't like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary in me, and I certainly have dramas.

  Todd Phillips

  Drama, Scared, Horror

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Michael Rapaport

  Hip Hop, Taking A Break, Hips

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• I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Men, Essentials

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• I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the 'CBS Evening News.' You could see that the audiences were eroding.

  Howard Stringer

  Golden Days, Age, News

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• When was the last time you saw a documentary that fundamentally changed the way you think? ...Pandora’s Promise is built around what should be the real liberal agenda: looking at an issue not with orthodoxy, but with open eyes.

  Owen Gleiberman

  Real, Eye, Thinking

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• In the early 1970s, the northern hemisphere appeared to have been cooling at an alarming rate. There was frequent talk of a new ice age. Books and documentaries appeared, hypothesizing a snowblitz or sporting titles such as The Cooling. Even the CIA got into the act, sponsoring several meetings and writing a controversial report warning of threats to American security from the potential collapse of Third World Governments in the wake of climate change.

  Stephen Schneider

  Book, Writing, World Government

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• 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

  World, Photographer, Fine

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• Dice Rules is one of the most appalling movies I have ever seen. It could not be more damaging to the career of Andrew Dice Clay if it had been made as a documentary by someone who hated him. The fact that Clay apparently thinks this movie is worth seeing is revealing and sad, indicating that he not only lacks a sense of humor, but also ordinary human decency.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, Careers, Clay

  Roger Ebert (2013). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.109, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The Frighteners.

  Roger Ebert

  Years, Nine, Lasts

  Roger Ebert (1997). “Roger Ebert's Video Companion”

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• For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux Paris photographic plates, 18 x 24 format, artistic documents of the beautiful civil architecture of the 16th to the 19th century: the old hôtels, historic or curious houses, beautiful facades, beautiful doors, beautiful woodwork, door knockers, old fountains This vast artistic and documentary collection is today complete. I can truthfully say that I possess all of Vieux Paris.

  Eugene Atget

  Beautiful, Doors, Years

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• We believed - and I personally still believe - that the so called Voice of God narration, ubiquitous in documentaries destined for PBS, is insulting to the audience. If you believe in the intelligence of your audience, you don't need to tell them what to think and how to process the material they're seeing.

  Jayne Loader

  Believe, Thinking, Pbs

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• It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.

  Rick Springfield

  Flippant, Fans, Would Be

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• Joe Berlinger's documentary 'Whitey' is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can't take your eyes off the screen.

  Leonard Maltin

  Eye, Hitting, Compelling

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• A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.

  Dorothy B. Porter

  Black, Depth, Records

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