Documentaries Quotes - Page 9

• I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Photographer, Filmmaker, Has Beens

  "Interview with Lauren Greenfield, Director of Queen of Versailles". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. July 20, 2012.

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• Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for projects that let me be the best filmmaker I can be, and to be stretched and grow further.

  Lucy Walker

  Ambition, People, Different

  "The Crash Reel Director Lucy Walker on Snowboarding and Simone de Beauvoir". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 12, 2013.

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• I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary. It was Mick Jagger's idea.The other one was Simple Plan, based on a novel by Scott Smith. It's a great book - really stark, not a comedy - about a guy who finds $4 million in a plane crash and decides to keep it.

  Ben Stiller

  Book, Simple, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.

  Ben Stiller

  Home, Childhood, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,.

  David Dixon

  Discipline, Training, Evidence

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• I'm Ready to Die without a Reasonable Doubt
  Smoke Chronic and hit it Doggystyle before I go out.
  Until they sign my Death Certificate, All Eyez on Me
  I'm still at it, Illmatic, and that's The Documentary.

  Jayceon Terrell Taylor

  Rap, Hip Hop, Doubt

  Song: The Documentary, Album: The Documentary

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• You see reality TV and it's not reality TV. It's contrived and everything is plotted and scripted nearly. Documentaries are the same and just as bad.

  Ricky Gervais

  Reality, Tvs, Reality Tv

  "Karl Pilkington, Ricky Gervais ('An Idiot Abroad')". Interview with Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. September 20, 2010.

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• I have made more documentaries in my time than I think I care to remember, though I am immensely proud of all my work.

  Charles Guggenheim

  Thinking, Care, Proud

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• I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if its worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way.

  Theophilus London

  Secret, Way, Reviews

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• I wanted to describe the world at the same time, through image, express what I felt. It was the time of the great documentary filmmakers: Richard Leacock, Joris Ivens. Today, television has put an end to this type of filmmaking.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Television, World, Today

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• Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea that we had to make a movie out of it.

  Lawrence Bender

  Ideas, Saws, Firsts

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• You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Short Love, Children, Real

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of.

  Chris Shiflett

  Rocks, Band, Versions

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life.

  Dave Grohl

  Real, Rocks, Looks

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I never uttered a word about things, but with my age now, I've completely lost all reservations. In more ways than one. I was never in front of the camera, for example, but now I've been in films and documentaries.

  Giovanna Cau

  Age, Way, Cameras

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Directors, Fiction, Film

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• I personally can watch an eight-hour documentary on Woody Allen because I'm fascinated by him. But, an audience can't really sit through more than two and a half hours on any movie. It doesn't matter if Marlon Brando came back from the dead. It's just impossible.

  Brett Ratner

  Two, Eight, Half

  Source: collider.com

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• My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations.

  Jamie Wyeth

  Thinking, Painting, Curious

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• I've been wanting to do a documentary on the true heart of the groupie ever since I was one. The groupie is just a girl who loves music and loves to be around the people who make it. She is the fan that takes it to the next level to experience the whole shebang.

  Pamela Des Barres

  Girl, Heart, People

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• Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through layers of manipulation, abstraction, and intervention. But now, it is very much on the surface. I like this honesty about its dishonesty. Every photograph has many truths and none. Photographs are ambiguous, no matter how seemingly scientific they appear to be. They are always subject to an uncontrollable context. This is a tired statement, but worth repeating.

  Taryn Simon

  Photography, Honesty, Tired

  Interview with Geoffrey Batchen, Nell McClister, www.museomagazine.com.

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• Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Rome, Cities, Two

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Educational, Film, Reason

  Rudolf Arnheim (1957). “Film as Art”, p.195, Univ of California Press

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• A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization.

  Max Weber

  Unique, Organization, Unity

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• People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.

  Derek Jarman

  People, Film, Fantastic

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• Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic , you experience it from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie.

  James Berardinelli

  Ocean, Epic, Journey

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