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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'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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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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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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ABBA documentary, "Super Troupers: 30 Years of ABBA"
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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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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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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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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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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I can do a documentary on myself, and it would be, like, 10 minutes.
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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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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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For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
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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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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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I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.
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People who hate me call me a Twitter troll, which is laughable given my extensive body of work, which you can find on Amazon in the form of books like 'Gorilla Mindset' and my documentary on free speech, 'Silenced.'
