Documentary Quotes
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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.
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My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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ABBA documentary, "Super Troupers: 30 Years of ABBA"
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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'America 24/7' will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age.
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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.
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'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
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What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced unconsciously and even unintentionally and accidentally by the cameraman.
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Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
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When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. It should be documentary style, because documentary is police photography of a scene and a murder ... that's a real document. You see, art is really useless, and a document has use. And therefore, art is never a document, but it can adopt that style. I do it. I'm called a documentary photographer. But that presupposes a quite subtle knowledge of this distinction.
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Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.
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You see a documentary, you want to see it on Aerosmith or Jon Bon Jovi or Kiss, a band that's been established and sold millions of records and done something notable.
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That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
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I can do a documentary on myself, and it would be, like, 10 minutes.
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For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
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With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of.
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To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.
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Jimi Hendrix came on TV on this documentary and it was this African-American soulful black guy, playing an electric guitar, which I'd just started. And it just blew my head off. I had like an afro at the time, too. It was a bit all over the place. And it wasn't a thing to have an afro. No, that's kind of quite old school. You're supposed to have like a neatly cut shaped up haircut.
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I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.
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I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.
