Documentaries Quotes - Page 5

• I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing one thing when I'm thought to be doing another.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Men, Definitions

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• The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

  Rainn Wilson

  Being Single, Office, Style

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 19, 2008.

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

  Jamie Bell

  Film, My Favorite, Mediums

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• I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Believe, Communication

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• I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Thinking, Whole Life, Whole

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• I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I was sort of a little biologist when I was younger. I watched documentaries on rainforest pollution and the loss of species and habitats for animals around the world. It affected me in a very hardcore, emotional way when I was younger. So, later in life I wanted to continue that path more and investigate and learn more about ecological issues.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Loss, Emotional, Thinking

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• These people [the Christians] watched the Flintstones as if it were a documentary.

  Lewis Black

  Christian, People, Religion

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• I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

  Tig Notaro

  Order, Bird, Hummingbirds

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• I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

  Jamie Bell

  Movie, Real, Thinking

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• I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Thinking, Fake, Impossible

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• I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found out I had conceived. My delivery was not easy - they call it 'labor,' not 'a vacation!' - but I was incredibly grateful that I did it that way.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Grateful, Vacation, Lakes

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• In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.

  Ava DuVernay

  Narrative, Truth Will Come Out, Situation

  "Ava DuVernay, Sundance Award-Winner for ‘Middle of Nowhere,’ On Why It’s Important That Stories About Black Women Be Told By Black Women". Interview with Claire Easton, www.indiewire.com. October 10, 2012.

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• It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

  Jonathan Demme

  Views, Fiction, Rich

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

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• Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the newspaper or turn on the radio or watch the news on TV there is another documentary subject. We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there?

  Jonathan Demme

  Country, Watches, News

  "Conversation: Director Jonathan Demme on His New Film and Hero, Carolyn Parker". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 20, 2012.

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• Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.

  Jonathan Demme

  Mean, Fiction, Littles

  "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.

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• I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don't think I could do it like I used to do it.

  Ryan McGinley

  Nice, Thinking, Interesting

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

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Watches, Information, Film

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• Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.

  David Riesman

  America, Long, Entertainment

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.220, Transaction Publishers

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• Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. That bloke next door? Made of pixels. Your co-workers? Pixels. You? One pixel. One measly pixel. You haven't even got shoes, for Christ's sake.

  Charlie Brooker

  Real, Doors, Shoes

  "The very fabric of society is breaking down around us. What the hell is there left to believe in?" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2009.

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• I watched this documentary on Madonna. I remember I grew up hearing she wanted to rule the world. Actually, she worked really hard - really, really hard.

  Winona Ryder

  Hearing, World, Remember

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I’ve long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special.

  Joe Morgenstern

  Whales, Long, Special

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• A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life, emotional, documentary-style, not big and cinematic and ultimately like the kind of movie I wanted to make.

  Dan Trachtenberg

  Emotional, Style, Kind

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• A friend of mine is trying to do a documentary where he brings Jewish and Arab comedians to occupied territories in Israel. He wants to do shows as a way of finding some comedic common denominator. When he proposed the idea to one of the officials at the Jenin refuge camp, the guy just stared at him and said, "This is not a joke to us. We don't think that laughing is the answer."

  Harold Ramis

  Thinking, Israel, Ideas

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I'm a huge fan of the Ken Burns documentary style, big time. I love documentaries full stop. I'm a big documentary fan. That's my reality. I don't like reality TV. I like it like that.

  Phil Morris

  Reality, Style, Fans

  Source: 411mania.com

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• The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

  Catherine Opie

  Ideas, Photographer, Reason

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