Documentaries Quotes - Page 20

• I've made many documentaries, but prostitution was the hardest in terms of gaining the trust of the people being filmed.

  Michael Glawogger

  People, Made, Prostitution

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Trying, Done

  Source: wwd.com

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• Maybe it's good a thing that people see me this way [in the documentary film]. They expect to see me with the high heels, the glamour looks, but now they will see me running through an airport with flat shoes! Also, they'll discover that stylists with "names" are in general nicer, sweeter, have a heart, have great relationships with family and friends, and that's important. It shows that people in fashion aren't just freaks.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Running, Fashion, Heart

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.

  Jonathan Demme

  Funny Things, Want, Documentary Films

  "I'm Carolyn Parker: Filmmaker Interview with Jonathan Demme". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• Unlike the book, with a documentary, you get a chance to show much more texture and color. Film gives you get a chance to focus on much more individuals who are pivotal in changing the landscape of American culture.

  Steve Stoute

  Book, Color, Giving

  Source: deadline.com

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

  Terry Zwigoff

  Film

  "INTERVIEW:Comic Book Confidential; Zwigoff Returns with Clowe’s 'Ghost World'". Interview with Daniel Steinhart, www.indiewire.com. July 20, 2001.

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

  Chris Lilley

  Kind, Boundaries, Conventions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.

  Chris Lilley

  Reality, Watches, Shows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Director Ken Burns revealed that his next documentary is about Franklin Roosevelt, and it's fourteen hours long...which sounds like too much, until you realize there's been over thirty hours of TV dedicated to Honey Boo Boo.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Reality, Long, History

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

  Lauren Greenfield

  Photographer, Filmmaker, Has Beens

  "Interview with Lauren Greenfield, Director of Queen of Versailles". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. July 20, 2012.

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• I love documentaries and I watch documentaries to no end.

  Michael Pena

  Watches, Ends

  "The Motion/Captured Interview: Michael Pena in ‘Observe and Report’". Interview with Drew McWeeny, uproxx.com. April 7, 2009.

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• Investigative journalism has been relegated to a very, very tiny space in America. We don't really have much investigative journalism left. And the last refuge for it is documentary filmmaking.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  America, Space, Lasts

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• I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed me on his computer a documentary-type montage sequence of real penguins swimming, in an Esther Williams synchronized sort of way, and doing things I have never seen them do. Then he explained his vision of the film, asked me to read the script and to voice the character. I was cast a little bit later, and he let me do the singing as well!

  Brittany Murphy

  Real, Character, Swimming

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When I think about the new film, I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what I'm good at. I'm good at observing people's behavior and putting these unspoken things into movie contexts in ways that other people can sometimes miss.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, People, Missing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I have tried reading the Bible but that's a tough read there. I watch a lot of religious documentaries. I have a keen interest in religion for someone who's not religious.

  Jim Jefferies

  Religious, Reading, Watches

  Source: www.complex.com

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• It's a privilege to have the career I have, to love every day and be following my passion, the stories that interest me, to remote locations and people. So nothing stops me from that - but yes, it seems redundant in documentary-filmmaker circles today to say the biggest struggle was financing.

  Pietra Brettkelly

  Struggle, Passion, Circles

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• People are beginning to realize that it's important that we see animals in a natural state - but through film, through video, through documentaries, at wildlife preserves, and through other humanely protected ways, which don't involve... performing for us.

  Montel Williams

  Animal, People, Important

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• As for documentary, it was a natural progression from my earlier career in journalism. The two media are connected, but of course making films is much more complicated, because you have image, sound and music to work with, not simply words.

  Nancy Kates

  Sound And Music, Media, Careers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you watch a stretch of TV for a few hours, there is a good chance you'll hear me on some commercial or in some documentary or on a cartoon as some voice of a character.

  Henry Rollins

  Character, Voice, Cartoon

  Source: lithiummagazine.com

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• I love the unexpected and I think that's why documentary is an attractive genre to me because you don't know where it's going to go, so I tend to involve that as much as possible in the production process.

  Seth Gordon

  Thinking, Unexpected, Attractive

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• With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories.

  Lucy Walker

  Real, Mean, Technology

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

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Resources, Filmmaker, Has Beens

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• Independent documentary isnt beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. Its a pathway to renegade, independent reporting in an in-depth, investigative fashion, and it can do so with a compassionate lens; it allows people to speak in a way that is more human than the mainstream media approach.

  Josh Fox

  Fashion, Independent, Media

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• A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.

  Roger Ebert

  Beautiful, Film, Remarkable

  "Queen of the Sun" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. April 27, 2011.

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• You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.

  Errol Morris

  Drama, Knowing, Film

  Source: www.believermag.com

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