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• If you care about the 2012 election and value the voices of regular Americans who lost hope in their hope and change candidate, this is one documentary you won't want to miss.

  Jedediah Bila

  Voice, Missing, Care

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• Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.

  Andy Warhol

  Queens, Women, People

  "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again".

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• Of course, the main reason is the change of law in the way Germany has brought Nazi war criminals to trial. The previous rules was that you'd have to have tangible evidence, and documentary evidence was not sufficient.

  Marvin Hier

  War, Law, Criminals

  "The Last Of Nazi War Convictions Will Not End Fight Against Anti-Semitism". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 13, 2016.

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• I tried [being a mogul]. It bores me. I don't really want to produce other people's movies. Because they're either grown-up filmmakers like Steven Soderbergh or Kathryn Bigelow that didn't really need me - and I've produced both of them. It's fun to sit around with them and be collegial, but they don't need me. They can make the film without me. I make my own stuff. There are tons and tons of other things I'm interested in that have nothing to do with movies or are documentary projects.

  James Cameron

  Fun, People, Needs

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20, 2010.

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• Great," Shane said. "Look i'd rather not be on janitorial duty. I have allergies to cleaners." "And to cleaning," Michael said. "Look who's talking, Didn't the do one of those Animal Planet documentaries about the roaches in your room?

  Rachel Caine

  Animal, Talking, Allergies

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn: The Morganville Vampires”, p.85, Penguin

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• 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.

  Rosie Perez

  Careers, Matter, Like You

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• I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Acting, Video, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.

  Todd Phillips

  Reality, Television, Landscape

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

  Walker Evans

  Ideas, Portraits, Mankind

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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.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Believe, Quality

  Walker Evans, Maria Morris Hambourg, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2000). “Walker Evans”, p.131, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasn’t there! This is the most graphic, honest, shameless and moving documentary of what the newly liberated women in cities got up to–how they lived, loved and created. Who knew? It is time they did! And here’s how.

  Carolyn Cassady

  Moving, Book, Cities

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• I wasn't really that informed about the two-year-old. Oh, I'd read about them, and occasionally I'd see documentaries on the Discovery Channel showing two-year-olds in the wild, where they belong.

  Ray Romano

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”

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• The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to make choices when you're trying to make something work. And the choices we make I think are accurate. There aren't any lies in it. There are assumpt

  Mark Rydell

  Art, Drama, Lying

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• But if anyone so much as threatened them because of what Kaia had once done, she would turn the Slumber Party Massacre into Blood, Bath and Beyond, a documentary by Kaia Skyhawk.

  Gena Showalter

  Party, Blood, Done

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.55, HQN Books

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• The great documentary subjects find you, you don't really search for them.

  Jeremy Coon

  Subjects

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• It's impossible for one or two people to go out and shoot a narrative film; you need to have a cast, the person shooting sound, whatever. But you can legitimately have a couple people and go and do a documentary.

  Jeremy Coon

  Couple, Two, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

  Dorothea Lange

  Life, Photography, Factual

  Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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• So you're Zach." Townsend didn't even try to hide the judgement in his voice as he looked Zach up and down in some sort of silent but dangerous examination. Zach huffed but smiled. "so you're Townsend." The two of them stared for a long time, wordless. It felt like I was watching a documentary on the Nature Channel, something about alpha males in the wild.

  Ally Carter

  Two, Voice, Long

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• Okay, 'Best Party Ever' -- to me, that's like saying 'Best Gym Ever' or 'Best Nature Documentary Ever,' like how good can it really be?

  Lena Dunham

  Party, Okay, Best Nature

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• I didn't feel physically sick. But mentally. My mind was twisting in so many ways. (...) We once saw a documentary on migraines. One of the men interviewed used to fall on his knees and bang his head against the floor, over and over during attacks. This diverted the pain from deep inside his brain, where he couldn't reach it, to a pain outside that he had control over.

  Jay Asher

  Pain, Fall, Men

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• A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any of the best technical photographs, and as creative as any of the best fine-art photographs. [...] I don't want to just be a photo essayist; I'm more interested in single images...ones that I feel are good enough to stand on their own.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Photography, Art, Strong

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• I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've stood up on the stage and given your speech about the healing power of fiction.

  George Saunders

  Healing, Speech, Doe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I hate making TV documentaries.

  Jamie Oliver

  Hate, Tvs, I Hate

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fear is not a word in my football documentary.

  Jose Mourinho

  Football

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• The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found the truth in the stories I was telling as a doc, I could teach myself filmmaking through doc filmmaking.

  Ava DuVernay

  Long, Stories, Found

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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