Documentaries Quotes - Page 21

• I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch and I do love big screen documentaries.

  Martin Parr

  Fans, Bigs, Screens

  "Martin Parr: My Media". Interview with John Dugdale, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2010.

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• I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.

  Arnon Goldfinger

  Believe, Balance, Fiction

  "Meet the 2012 Tribeca Filmmakers #18: ‘The Flat’ Director Arnon Goldfinger". www.indiewire.com. April 11, 2012.

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• My friends adore 'TOWIE' - the TV documentary series, 'The Only Way is Essex.' They like it, I'm afraid, for the most unworthy of reasons: class mockery. They tune in to wonder in a 'can you believe those people?' way at the natives of Brentwood and Buckhurst Hill.

  Peter York

  Believe, Class, People

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• The film [Dream of Life] came together when we started editing; it was organic, it became nonlinear and it was its own animal. And I didn't want to tame it, either. I wanted it to be different. It's not your typical documentary.

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Animal, Editing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.

  Julian Assange

  Book, Firsts, Tvs

  "Julian Assange answers your questions". Q&A, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2010.

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• I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of time and the changes in literary taste. The other poets mentioned are my poetic cohort from the U.K. I wrote the piece in situ, as it were, while making a television documentary about World War I in Germany.

  Simon Armitage

  War, Meditation, Ironic

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• Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

  Leos Carax

  Editing, Forever, Fiction

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• With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories.

  Lucy Walker

  Real, Mean, Technology

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• I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

  Lucy Walker

  Fiction, Way, Filmmaking

  "‘Crash Reel’ Documentarian Lucy Walker Knows Where She’s Going". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 11, 2013.

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• Independent documentary isnt beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. Its a pathway to renegade, independent reporting in an in-depth, investigative fashion, and it can do so with a compassionate lens; it allows people to speak in a way that is more human than the mainstream media approach.

  Josh Fox

  Fashion, Independent, Media

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• I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

  Sheila Nevins

  People, Stories, Want

  "HBO Docs President Sheila Nevins Talks West Memphis Three, New Oscar Rules, Sundance, Abramovic". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. February 22, 2012.

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• A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.

  Roger Ebert

  Beautiful, Film, Remarkable

  "Queen of the Sun" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. April 27, 2011.

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• The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the flaws everywhere, in any practice of photography. Traditional genres in particular-journalism, documentary studies, and fine-art photography-have become shells, or forms emptied of meaning.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Art, Practice

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• I think the Republicans and conservatives generally were alienated by America's unsuccessful effort in Vietnam, and a lot of them, as Henry Kissinger admitted the other day, never got over President Nixon's impeachment, and didn't think, even though there was a pattern of illegal conduct there, sanctioned by the White House and proved by the tapes and other documentary evidence and testimony, they didn't believe that the impeachment was justified, and they didn't think he should have resigned.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me. I like the 'let's forget our troubles and have some excitement' approach. I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.

  Jack Brickhouse

  Sports, Integrity, Dry

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• You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.

  Errol Morris

  Drama, Knowing, Film

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• By the end of the documentary [ '13th'], you really understand what prison is, what the prison industrial complex is, where this whole Black Lives Matter movement comes from, the history of resistance, the history of how politicians have used criminality over the decades for a particular political gain. It's to give people an understanding of it so they can make their own decisions about how they want to be in the world.

  Ava DuVernay

  Giving, People, Decision

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I've known Owen's father Ron [Suskind] for years, and this was based on his best-selling book ["Life, Animated"]. We worked together as journalists at ABC-TV News, and I knew about the book since its inception. Before he finished it, he approached me and said he thought it would make a great documentary, and I agree with him, and moved forward from there.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Father, Book, Tv News

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the specific muse that inspired "It's Alright Ma" would not return.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Home, Would Be

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it always begins with the writer. With the kernel of an idea, or a character, or an idea or a theme, or even an outcome. But for documentary photographers, photographs begin at that intersection of the real world and the imaginative inner world.

  Sam Abell

  Real, Writing, Character

  Source: dougplummer.blogs.com

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• You know so many documentaries now are very carefully scripted before you start, and then people are sort of put in chairs which are beautifully lit, and they tell their stories and you do that with another 10 people and you then construct a story from what they say. You do a sort of paper thing, and then you put some images in-between, and that's your film. And that's so not what I think is a good documentary. It can be so much more than that, it should be much more of an adventure and much more uncertain... like real things are.

  Nick Broomfield

  Real, Adventure, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• ...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of a scene. And, anyway, every image only halfway represents reality, whereas the other half is rather, more or less, fulfilling our imagination.

  Beat Streuli

  Reality, Imagination, Half

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• My staged work looks so real that people actually take it for documentary. But, in fact, that is my intention, to disguise the manufacturedness of it. Half of my work, or probably more than that, is staged.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Real, People, Looks

  Interview with Peter Halley and Bob Nickas, www.indexmagazine.com. 1997.

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• The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the subjects consciously direct themselves to bring forward hidden information that is not normally displayed on the surface.

  Arthur Tress

  Information, Window, Stage

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• Making the documentary was an extraordinary experience and it really hit home to me the quasi-religious nature of this anthropogenic global warming cause. These people really have found religion.

  Nick Minchin

  Religious, Home, People

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