Documentaries Quotes - Page 4

• And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.

  Michael Patrick Jann

  Style, Energy, Shooting

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• Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.

  Anita Diament

  Song, Writing, Light

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• Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date.

  Cilla Black

  Years, Albums, Blind

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• Since I come from documentary background and my father is a documentary filmmaker, for me the core essence of cinema is it's social statement. It is somewhat similar to the work of a journalist, just on a different level. This is the kind of cinema I enjoy.

  Ivan Tverdovsky

  Father, Essence, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Editors, Important, Directors

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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

  Robert Zemeckis

  Watches, Television

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• I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form and take you on a journey.

  Barry Levinson

  Journey, Long, Television

  "Barry Levinson on ‘Killing Fields’ and True Crime Storytelling". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 26, 2016.

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• One day I decided to move towards documentaries or to move to more directing in documentaries at this point in my career. Why documentaries? I also love fiction. I would love to direct a fiction movie as well. But I think where I come from, reality is so interesting and has in it so many good stories to tell, this is why I'm doing that. I'm enjoying that.

  Dror Moreh

  Moving, Reality, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.

  Steven Yeun

  Honesty, Real, People

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

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• This whole business of documentary being a second-class citizen is bullshit. A documentary can be as interesting, as dramatic, as sad, as funny, blah, blah, blah, as a fiction movie. Or it can be as awful as a fiction movie!

  Frederick Wiseman

  Class, Interesting, Bullshit

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like my own background in improv and doing documentaries makes me really comfortable with a situation where you're letting things unfold and you don't have to be a jerk, stomping his feet, trying to get his way on everything.

  Seth Gordon

  Feet, Trying, Way

  "Exclusive: Director Seth Gordon Talks HORRIBLE BOSSES, WARGAMES and KING OF KONG". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 4, 2011.

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• I came from a very avant-garde documentary kind of film making world. I like cinema verité, documentaries. I liked non-story, non-character tone poems. And that's the film making that I was interested in.

  George Lucas

  Character, Tone, Avant Garde

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• We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was that it was so ordinary. Nobody had ever done it before, deliberately. Now it's called documentary, which I suppose is all right ... We just took pictures that cried out to be taken.

  Ben Shahn

  Taken, Ordinary, Done

  Ben Shahn (1972). “Ben Shahn”

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• I'm a curious guy. I can't turn away from an investigative story, when it comes to the forensic analysis. I've done 33 dives, to the titanic wreck site. I've spent over 50 hours piloting robotic vehicles at that wreck trying to piece together what happened during the disaster. How the ship broke up, comparing the historical record with the forensic record. Documentaries are kind of my new life. I love documentary filmmaking.

  James Cameron

  Guy, Historical, Trying

  "Cameron: Jesus tomb film is a "detective story". Today Interview, www.today.com. February 27, 2007.

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• I'm a documentary filmmaker, so often I'm in the position of talking to people who are sharing stories that are critically important to share, but often difficult to share at the same time.

  Kristi Jacobson

  Talking, People, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As far as documentaries go, I believe unreservedly that they serve an important function in our culture. I'd love to be able to make both documentaries and feature films simultaneously, but so far that hasn't happened.

  Hirokazu Koreeda

  Believe, Important, Culture

  Source: therumpus.net

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• At times doc filmmaking feels more rewarding creatively. Because you are creating something out of pure cinema - instead of narrative cinema, where you've got a script and a cast and you build from your foundation, whereas in documentary, you're building out of chaos.

  George Hickenlooper

  Creating, Foundation, Cinema

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Above all, documentary must reflect the problems and realities of the present. It cannot regret the past; it is dangerous to prophesy the future. It can, and does, draw on the past in its use of existing heritages but it only does so to give point to a modern argument. In no sense is documentary a historical reconstruction and attempts to make it so are destined to failure. Rather it is contemporary fact and event expressed in relation to human associations.

  Paul Rotha

  Regret, Past, Reality

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• In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Good Movie, Mind, Fiction

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• If you're a great documentary filmmaker, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're a great narrative filmmaker. There are fantastic documentary filmmakers that can't direct actors. You don't have to do that in a documentary, if it's a real documentary.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Real, Mean, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with which you can hear something's going on, somebody's going to be somewhere: That sounds so interesting. Pick up your camera and go.

  Jonathan Demme

  Ideas, Interesting, Cameras

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2010.

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• On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.

  Mindy Kaling

  Romantic, Office, Feelings

  "Mindy Kaling Talks Acting in and Producing THE MINDY PROJECT, Returning to THE OFFICE, GAME OF THRONES Obsessions and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 30, 2012.

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• There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. 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. Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as The Pacific.

  Steven Spielberg

  War, Thinking, Safe Haven

  "Steven Spielberg Interview HBO’s THE PACIFIC". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. February 4, 2010.

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• If you think that [Yale professor James] Saiers is in the greenhouse sceptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could go through official AGU channels to get him ousted.

  Tom Wigley

  Thinking, Yale, Professors

  "Rorting data is hell, Nino" by Andrew Bolt, www.heraldsun.com.au. November 24, 2009.

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• I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

  Saffron Burrows

  Years, Giving, Revolutionary

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