Documentary Quotes

• 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.'

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • Body
  • Find
  • Books

• You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens.

  

  Ed Cunningham
  • Documentary
  • Cooler
  • Reconstruct

• Making a documentary, there are thousands of choices, all the time: the angles and the pace and the choice of characters, the choice of music.

  

  Carl Andreas Koefoed
  • Music
  • Choice
  • Characters

• Reality TV has ruined people's ability to watch documentary.

  

  David Farrier
  • Ruined
  • Documentary
  • Reality TV

• Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world.

  

  Allan Sekula
  • Photography
  • Evidence
  • Documentary

• I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all.

  

  Brian Lindstrom
  • Rule
  • Documentary

• I watched a TV documentary about how animals are farmed, killed and prepared for us to eat. I saw all those cows and pigs and realized I couldn't be a part of it any more. It was horrible. I did some research to make sure I could still obtain enough protein to fight and, once satisfied that I could, I stopped. I'll never go back.

  

  David Haye
  • Back
  • Satisfied
  • Prepared

• One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it has all of those built-in challenges.

  

  Brian Lindstrom
  • People
  • Star
  • Challenges

• Let's assume he has the opportunity to make a documentary for TV for $7 million. It's not going to make much of a difference, is it? Not worth committing a crime over?

  

  Thomas Mesereau
  • Opportunity
  • Assume
  • Committing

• Documentary film is the one place that our people can speak for themselves. I feel that the documentaries that I've been working on have been very valuable for the people, for our people to look at ourselves, at the situations, really facing it, and through that being able to make changes that really count for the future of our children to come.

  

  Alanis Obomsawin
  • Film
  • Changes
  • Documentary

• You could make a feature about the world of tickling. You could include female ticklers and you could find out why people are ticklish, but I don't think it would be a great documentary, when you're spending 90 minutes just finding out about the physiology and psychology of tickling.

  

  David Farrier
  • People
  • Minutes
  • Feature

• In documentary you sometimes see the tyranny of the linear, but what I've noticed in the last ten years in narrative film is the tyranny of the non-linear.

  

  Brian Lindstrom
  • Tyranny
  • Documentary
  • Narrative film

• If everyone knows so much about it, why do they need to make a documentary?

  

  Brigid Pasulka
  • Documentary

• Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.

  

  Stephanie Coontz
  • Opinion
  • Contrary
  • Documentary

• As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,.

  

  David Dixon
  • Training
  • Discipline
  • Historians

• People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in order to make something good you need time.

  

  Alex Hammond
  • Responsibility
  • Film
  • Documentary

• I learned how to tell stories with Jay-Z on 'City Is Mine.' I learned how to film and choreograph dancing on 'Can I Get A...,' and I got to kind of be a documentary filmmaker with 'Hard Knock Life.'

  

  Steve Carr
  • Stories
  • Documentary
  • Choreograph

• A good film is also a documentary.

  

  Eric Rohmer
  • Film
  • Documentary

• We all identify with the people we see, and in a good documentary, we are not just reading an account of the world, we're seeing and hearing our world.

  

  Joshua Oppenheimer
  • People
  • Documentary
  • Identify

• What's great about documentary genre, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of "documentary."

  

  Errol Morris
  • Filmmaking
  • Diverse
  • Umbrella

• I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been on the field.

  

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
  • Learned
  • Field
  • Filmmaker

• Making the documentary was an extraordinary experience and it really hit home to me the quasi-religious nature of this anthropogenic global warming cause. These people really have found religion.

  

  Nick Minchin
  • Experience
  • Global Warming
  • Documentary

• Stay humble to the craft and never forget how much it actually takes to be the main character of a documentary.

  

  Nicole Nielsen Horanyi
  • Character
  • Documentary
  • Main

• Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Moment
  • Place
  • Photography

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