Documentaries Quotes - Page 8

• I've done documentaries and TV for six years but this was my first feature as director, so there were moments when I'd look around and was excited... but, of course, it was also very challenging on a day-to-day basis. And, of course, now that it's coming out people want to talk mostly to the actors.

  Robert B. Weide

  Years, People, Challenges

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fiction cinema terms and I think I tried to apply those ideas to documentaries and not vice versa.

  John Hyams

  Opportunity, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• When you see the documentary, you'll see that there were parallels. Michael and I both wanted Daniel Craig, and it was the same as it was for Cubby and Harry when they wanted Sean [Connery]. The studio wanted a star and wanted an American, and wanted this and that, but they determined, "No, it's Sean Connery."

  Barbara Broccoli

  Stars, Determined, Wanted

  Source: collider.com

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• Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a company with a college friend where we made documentary video for museums. In that capacity, I shot, directed, edited and began to learn the vocabulary of film.

  Jon Spaihts

  New York, College, Vocabulary

  Source: collider.com

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• Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Real, Ruins, Filmmaking

  "Frederick Wiseman on his new film and his dream of shooting in the White House". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2015.

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• I'm not a fan of the Eagles, but I've watched their documentary numerous times and everyone who's watched it with me has sung along to the songs, much to my dismay.

  Bill Hader

  Song, Eagles, Fans

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There's a real difference between a documentary that was all about facts and history and information. People just don't get as engaged in that kind of documentary - they don't fall in love, they don't cry, they don't forget who they are, they don't ride with you. As we realized we had richer, vérité kind of people, what we wanted to do is focus in on the vérité story.

  Abigail Disney

  Falling In Love, Real, Differences

  "This Film Could Change How the Right Wing Feels About Guns". Interview with Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. October 31, 2015.

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• At home, I watch fights and documentaries - that's it. If it's not about the birth and death of stars, 'Frozen Planet,' or someone getting punched in the face, I'm probably not watching it.

  Ronda Rousey

  Stars, Home, Fighting

  "Ronda Rousey: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2012.

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• One of the top challenges is the fact that you are dealing with survivors. Every time you deal with a documentary film subject it is fraught with obvious minefields but when you are dealing with a population that is severely traumatized and trying to recover from that trauma there is an extra level of vigilance and care and attention that has to be implemented all the time at every level.

  Amy Ziering

  Challenges, Trying, Population

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm still producing scripted features, and I am already working on a new documentary project with Norman Lear and Lara Bergthold. It is about the Declaration of Independence and the relevance of the document today. And it will be fun and engaging - I promise!

  Linda Goldstein Knowlton

  Fun, Independence, Promise

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I made the transition to directing documentaries with the great help of my Co-Director on The World According to Sesame Street, Linda Hawkins Costigan. She was a gracious teacher, and a wonderful collaborator.

  Linda Goldstein Knowlton

  Teacher, Directors, Transition

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding the images based on what happens, as it happens.

  Benjamin Avila

  Cameras, Directors, Approach

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a script, a lot more start-up resources. It may be self-perpetuating.

  Thom Powers

  Self, Cameras, Needs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Immigration is not an issue that I read about in the newspaper or watch a documentary on PBS or CNN. It's an issues I've lived around my whole life. My family are immigrants. My wife's family are immigrants. All of my neighbors are immigrants.

  Marco Rubio

  Pbs, Issues, Cnn

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you're focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don't have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited. My way was to work, make my short... make my documentary... make my small films... use my own money... raise money myself... and stay shooting and focused on each project.

  Ava DuVernay

  Glasses, Ceilings, Use

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. December 22, 2014.

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• For some reason at Sundance, more than other festivals that I'm aware of, you find filmmakers rushing to screen works that sometimes aren't completed. In my seven years of programming at Toronto, I'm not aware of any documentaries that went back for serious editing after their premiere - other than those presented as works-in-progress. But at Sundance every year there seems to be a few films that push the deadline so hard that they get taken back to the edit room afterwards.

  Thom Powers

  Taken, Editing, Years

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In an old model, the way a film would imprint itself on the public's consciousness is to get a theatrical run. But now there are more documentaries and more films in general being released than ever before. There are weeks when the New York Times is reviewing 15 films, so it's harder to leave an impression on the public. A lot of these films are seeing their financial future on digital platforms. Because viewers aren't hearing as much about films in theatrical release, I think the festival circuit is going to have increasing importance for the life of a film.

  Thom Powers

  Running, New York, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When I'm able to bring together the two worlds that I love so much - film and TV - is a documentary feature, it's nirvana!

  Dori Berinstein

  Two, Together, World

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Theatre is filled w/ passion, risk and drama (as much behind-the-curtain as on stage), perfect ingredients for documentary storytelling.

  Dori Berinstein

  Drama, Passion, Perfect

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• For some reason or other there was in me the desire to see the world clean and fresh and alive, as primitive things are clean and fresh and alive. The so-called documentary picture left me wanting something.

  Aaron Siskind

  Desire, Alive, World

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• I watched a documentary about Freedom Riders. One young woman told her parents, 'I'm going to leave college to ride and represent the future.' I thought, 'Who would do that now?' Who would do that for my son?"

  Sandra Bullock

  Son, College, Parent

  Interview with Cindy Pearlman, acttwomagazine.com.

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• I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.

  Bill Burr

  Albums, Band, Records

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• An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.

  Dieter Roth

  Art, Photograph, Eyewitnesses

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• Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.

  Beaumont Newhall

  Giving, Facts, Use

  Beaumont Newhall (1982). “The history of photography: from 1839 to the present”, Bulfinch Press

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• Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do it, the more they prove the victory of the camera over the human being.

  Vilem Flusser

  Memories, Victory, Cameras

  Vilém Flusser (2013). “Towards a Philosophy of Photography”, p.59, Reaktion Books

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