Documentaries Quotes - Page 17

• I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.

  Billy Connolly

  Hate, Glasses, People

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• The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Appreciation, Gratitude

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• I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.

  Willie Dixon

  Inspiration, Past, People

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• I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fiction cinema terms and I think I tried to apply those ideas to documentaries and not vice versa.

  John Hyams

  Opportunity, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• When you see the documentary, you'll see that there were parallels. Michael and I both wanted Daniel Craig, and it was the same as it was for Cubby and Harry when they wanted Sean [Connery]. The studio wanted a star and wanted an American, and wanted this and that, but they determined, "No, it's Sean Connery."

  Barbara Broccoli

  Stars, Determined, Wanted

  Source: collider.com

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• Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a company with a college friend where we made documentary video for museums. In that capacity, I shot, directed, edited and began to learn the vocabulary of film.

  Jon Spaihts

  New York, College, Vocabulary

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not a fan of the Eagles, but I've watched their documentary numerous times and everyone who's watched it with me has sung along to the songs, much to my dismay.

  Bill Hader

  Song, Eagles, Fans

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

  Bela Fleck

  Should Have, Made, Should

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's a documentary film-maker called Werner Herzog, who's a German film-maker. I really dig his stuff, I'd love to chat with him.

  Finn Jones

  Stuff, Documentary Films, Makers

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• Alejandro Amenabar is a different kind of director than I lot of the directors I've asked for. He really asks you to enter his dream as opposed to, you know, a guy like Sidney Lumet or something is going to ask you to create a character almost like a documentary. He wants you to make the people really real and he's going to capture it like a documentarian.

  Ethan Hawke

  Dream, Real, Character

  "Ethan Hawke Talks Regression". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

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• You try to do as much as you can on set because practical looks cool and practical looks great. Until you get to a point where the reality is you look at it - and I went through this in my last movie which was a war film, which my brother fought in Iraq and I did a ton of research and as much as I could made it documentary-like - and then at some point on set, the reality is somebody says to you, "You know, you can use a real squib and you can have three hours of clean up and you can lose five shots or we can do that blood explosion in post and you can get those five extra shots."

  Kimberly Peirce

  Brother, Real, War

  Source: collider.com

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• You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has row after row of people bending over and digging out carrots - that can be very tedious. And so it's only once in a while that something happens that is worth doing.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Book, Interesting, People

  Richard Lorenz, Imogen Cunningham (1993). “Imogen Cunningham: ideas without end : a life in photographs”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• I've always intended to eventually make films. I've always been very aware of tone and shots. But documentaries are a great proving ground for me.

  George Ratliff

  Tone, Film, Shots

  "Director George Ratliff Interview SALVATION BOULEVARD". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 13, 2011.

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• I started by studying Kiswahili to learn the dialect. Then, I studied tapes, documentaries, footage, and audio cassettes of Idi Amin's speeches. And I met with his brothers, his sisters, his ministers, his generals' all kinds of people, in order to try to understand him.

  Forest Whitaker

  Brother, Order, People

  Source: aalbc.com

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• We've never had a situation where mass media has been so censored, at least in my lifetime. When I was younger, networks like NBC, CBS, were independently owned, and took their jobs as journalists seriously. There used to be documentaries like "The Selling of the Pentagon."

  Jello Biafra

  Jobs, Nbc, Media

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• At home, I watch fights and documentaries - that's it. If it's not about the birth and death of stars, 'Frozen Planet,' or someone getting punched in the face, I'm probably not watching it.

  Ronda Rousey

  Stars, Home, Fighting

  "Ronda Rousey: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2012.

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• For some reason or other there was in me the desire to see the world clean and fresh and alive, as primitive things are clean and fresh and alive. The so-called documentary picture left me wanting something.

  Aaron Siskind

  Desire, Alive, World

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• I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.

  Bill Burr

  Albums, Band, Records

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• An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.

  Dieter Roth

  Art, Photograph, Eyewitnesses

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• Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.

  Beaumont Newhall

  Giving, Facts, Use

  Beaumont Newhall (1982). “The history of photography: from 1839 to the present”, Bulfinch Press

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• Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do it, the more they prove the victory of the camera over the human being.

  Vilem Flusser

  Memories, Victory, Cameras

  Vilém Flusser (2013). “Towards a Philosophy of Photography”, p.59, Reaktion Books

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• When the American documentary filmmaker Donn Alan Pennebaker wanted to do a film on Dylan, Dylan asked him what he'd already done, and Pennebaker answered, Nothing except shots in the street. Dylan asked to see them, and he agreed to let him do the film.

  Raymond Depardon

  Done, Film, Shots

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• By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.

  Natalie Merchant

  Memories, Titles, Calling

  "Paradise is here: an interview with Natalie Merchant". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, livingoutli.org. April 19, 2016.

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• I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is an important issue. And it was an important issue to me, personally. And the whole question of when - when do you put the camera down or when do you keep shooting to get the shot. And a number of times in my life I've had that question hit me very hard.

  Haskell Wexler

  Attitude, Thinking, Numbers

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He was uninterested in being a first-tier artist! He wanted to be, you know, a god. Someone who completely changed the...he wanted to be Zeus with the lightning bolt and nothing less would have satisfied him.

  Bob Colacello

  Artist, Names, Lightning

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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