Documentaries Quotes - Page 15

• When I'm able to bring together the two worlds that I love so much - film and TV - is a documentary feature, it's nirvana!

  Dori Berinstein

  Two, Together, World

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Theatre is filled w/ passion, risk and drama (as much behind-the-curtain as on stage), perfect ingredients for documentary storytelling.

  Dori Berinstein

  Drama, Passion, Perfect

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Like theatre, crafting a documentary film takes tremendous commitment, patience and passion.

  Dori Berinstein

  Passion, Commitment, Theatre

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There's a real difference between a documentary that was all about facts and history and information. People just don't get as engaged in that kind of documentary - they don't fall in love, they don't cry, they don't forget who they are, they don't ride with you. As we realized we had richer, vérité kind of people, what we wanted to do is focus in on the vérité story.

  Abigail Disney

  Falling In Love, Real, Differences

  "This Film Could Change How the Right Wing Feels About Guns". Interview with Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. October 31, 2015.

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• I've done documentaries and TV for six years but this was my first feature as director, so there were moments when I'd look around and was excited... but, of course, it was also very challenging on a day-to-day basis. And, of course, now that it's coming out people want to talk mostly to the actors.

  Robert B. Weide

  Years, People, Challenges

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Real, Ruins, Filmmaking

  "Frederick Wiseman on his new film and his dream of shooting in the White House". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2015.

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• I think my movies aren't sentimental. I think my movies are funny and sad and realistic. Not realistic in the sense that they're documentaries, but realistic in the sense that they're not idealistic, they're not optimistic, not pessimistic, and not propagandistic. They're an analysis of a situation. I call it as I see it, so to speak.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Optimistic, Thinking, Analysis

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Thinking, Numbers, Elements

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.

  Pamela Yates

  Essence, Knowing, Judging

  "'Granito: How to Nail a Dictator': New Film Tracks Struggle for Justice After Guatemalan Genocide". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.alternet.org. September 15, 2011.

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• I live in New York City, and I'm making huge action movies. The people that make huge action movies live in L.A., and they're surrounded by other people who make huge action movies. I'm surrounded by people making documentaries!

  Doug Liman

  New York, Cities, People

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• There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. And that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. They're not written, not rehearsed. It's spontaneous, extemporaneous material. People

  Errol Morris

  Strong, Mean, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I had trouble finishing things.

  Errol Morris

  Writing, Thinking, Finishing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.

  Errol Morris

  Drama, Periods, Filmmaker

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• A lot of the distinctions that we make between drama and documentary are spurious. We're deeply confused about these issues. About the difference between the two, about where documentary ends and drama begins.

  Errol Morris

  Confused, Drama, Two

  Interview with Nick Poppy, www.believermag.com. April 2004.

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• Whenever I'm making a feature film, I wish I were filming a documentary, because making feature films is so stressful. It happens every time.

  Fatih Ak?n

  Wish, Film, Stressful

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The biggest misconception is that I'm only a documentary filmmaker, but in fact I have made many narrative shorts. My biggest inspirations are narrative films, and that's ultimately where I see myself going next.

  Alex Hammond

  Inspiration, Narrative, Next

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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, Order, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I like to turn on the TV and watch whatever's on. Nick Kroll does that a lot. He doesn't watch important shows. He'll just turn on a documentary on Mia Hamm and watch it for an hour. Whatever's on, we watch.

  John Mulaney

  Important, Tvs, Doe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Fields, Film, Conscious

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.

  Werner Herzog

  Mean, Film, Cases

  "A Documentary is Just a Feature Film In Disguise: An Interview with Werner Herzog". Interview with Ben Simington, mubi.com. December 12, 2009.

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• To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the significance underlying the person that occupy his attention... Documentary approach to cinema differs from that of story-film not in its disregard for craftsman-ship, but in the purpose to which that craftsmanship is put. Documentary is a trade just as carpentry or pot-making. The pot-maker makes pots, and the documentarian documentaries.

  Paul Rotha

  People, Directors, Cinema

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• We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what's going to happen when they see a documentary they don't like or news reports they don't like."

  Barack Obama

  United States, News, Able

  Barack Obama's remarks in Year-End Press Conference in James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 19, 2014.

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• People are looking at possibly doing some documentaries and also we have the first four films that will stay out there for the years to come. So, yeah, Sherwood Pictures will be around and my brother and I are certainly supporters of that. We can't wait to see what God does not only locally there at the church but what he has for us down the road as well.

  Alex Kendrick

  Brother, Years, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film as being an absolute version of the truth.

  Cate Blanchett

  Real, People, Wonderful

  "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: "There Is Always a Backlash"". "Actress Roundtable" with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

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• I'd rather lose the small part of the audience that is going to be insulted because a documentary shouldn't have music than the big part of the audience that kind of gives itself over to the scene.

  Daniel Stamm

  Giving, Kind, Scene

  Source: screenrant.com

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