Documentaries Quotes - Page 19

• People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

  Laura Prepon

  Ideas, People, Prison

  "Q&A: Laura Prepon on Orange Is the New Black, Lesbianism, Tasteful Nudity & Prison". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. July 10, 2013.

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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.

  Haskell Wexler

  Attitude, Thinking, Issues

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

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• There's nothing attractive about doing a documentary. Nothing. It's hard, hard work, and I find having all the attention of the day on me a very unattractive proposition.

  Elaine Stritch

  Hard Work, Attention, Unattractive

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• I make films about people with disabilities as well and I think this question is more relevant in regards to these documentaries where the actual person appears on film. I know these people are proud of who they are and what they are doing with their lives.

  Arthur Bradford

  Thinking, People, Proud

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or a few videos on Youtube, and you're good.

  David Oyelowo

  Focus, Watches, Video

  Source: aalbc.com

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• If I weren't making documentary films, I suppose I'd be teaching.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Teaching, Documentary Films, Ifs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Years, Narrative, Lasts

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Brian Lindstrom

  Thinking, Linear, Hard

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Stars, People, Challenges

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am particularly pleased to see that there are so many women working in documentary film.

  Chris Hegedus

  Documentary Films, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• "Plaza de la Soledad" is a documentary about Carmen, Lety, Raquel and Esther, four strong women - middle-aged and older - who want to break a vicious circle that began with abuse and abandonment suffered from an early age. They simply want to have a better life. The film follows their quest to find true love and their capacity to transform themselves.

  Maya Goded

  Strong Women, Circles, Abuse

  Source: blogs.indiewire.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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• If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as you can get in a narrative form.

  Mark Duplass

  Narrative, Tvs, Makers

  Source: collider.com

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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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• Now documentary evidence is acceptable. What does that mean? If you have documentary evidence that a person served as a guard in one of the death camps and the documents have been authenticated, that is grounds to charge the person with crimes against humanity. And that's why you see the spate of trials previously, for example, in the '70s and the '80s, even in the low '90s. That was not the case until the change in the law.

  Marvin Hier

  Mean, Law, Humanity

  "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 read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates has an amazing documentary called Many Rivers to Cross - really, his whole writings; he's such a wealth of knowledge.

  Jurnee Smollett

  Girl, Book, Writing

  "Jurnee Smollett-Bell Gets Deep About Underground, a Slave Narrative That Will Make You Proud to Be Black". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. March 9, 2016.

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• Making an independent documentary film is so hard that usually, the usual model is that your film becomes a model for advocacy, so you can enlist that support group and get as much juice out of your film as possible. That's just practically, financially, what you need to do.

  Tim Hetherington

  Independent, Support, Usual

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.

  Dana Spiotta

  Trying, Portraits, Way

  "Dana Spiotta’s Age of Innocence". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• Documentaries are my favorite thing, and the more depressing, the better.

  Maria Thayer

  Depressing, Favorites Things, My Favorite

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.

  Maria Thayer

  People, Serious, Wits End

  Source: www.avclub.com

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