Documentary Quotes

It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary.

I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.

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.

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.

Those are just some of the people whom we interviewed in the documentary, but that should provide you with a good sense of the credibility of the individuals who bolster the case that this administration lied us into a war.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

I want to do a documentary about strippers, 'cause it's a moneymaker.

This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.

In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.

Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.

On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.

The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.

I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.

The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as an agent of Iraq. The FBI has also opened up an investigation into my wife calling her a KGB spy.

I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise.

We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.

The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say.

And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there.

My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.

I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as discreet as possible, and flexible enough to be able to capture the moment when it happens. I know from documentary how to not have a preconceived idea of what the scene could be.