Quotes About Documentary

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.

The one I love the most is about two mayflies on a date; they watch a nature documentary about themselves and discover their life span is only one day long ? after mating, they'll die.

I'm not trying to acquire a reputation as serious documentary maker for its own sake.

We get so many requests like, 'We want behind-the-scenes access,' or 'We're going to show people what it's really like to be on the campaign with Donald Trump.' But there is just no way that a camera or an episode or a documentary could capture what has gone on.

Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date.

Documentary people have to know that, particularly nowadays, they have to be on a mission. And part of the mission is to - is to be like good journalists: search for the truth, have an open mind, listen to as much as you can of different sides of things.

My childhood friends and I would have been featured in 'The Achievers: The Story of the Big Lebowski Fans,' but I never signed the release form we received from the producers. I am both proud and ashamed of this fact.

People who hate me call me a Twitter troll, which is laughable given my extensive body of work, which you can find on Amazon in the form of books like 'Gorilla Mindset' and my documentary on free speech, 'Silenced.'

In 1993, my first documentary was about the civil war in Algeria. That was in French and in Arabic. Another short film I did was silent. What I'm trying to say is that, yes, I'm Italian, and yes, I make films with Italian money, but personally, I've always been invested in the broader world of film-making.

I, for one, personally like rom-coms, silly rom-coms, but at the same time, I also want to watch a documentary or an award-winning drama.

Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize.

SavaÅŸ fotoÄŸraflar?nda güzellik görmek, kalpsizlikle eÅŸ anlaml? say?lmaktad?r.

Images of the sufferings endured in war are so widely disseminated now that it is easy to forget how recently such images became what is expected from photographers of note.

photographs are a means of making "real" (or "more real") matters that the privileged and the merely safe might prefer to ignore.

camera is a kind of passport that annihilates moral boundaries and social inhibitions

There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration.

I was very impressed with Davis Guggenheim's 'An Inconvenient Truth.' He's inspired me as one of the newer, cutting-edge documentary filmmakers. I see those films, and I'm just instinctively drawn to them.

Ridiculous. You guys are going to have the most boring documentary on earth, I said and stormed inside. Could you walk in the building again, but slower and don't slam the door, Hugo called after me.

Of course, when you're making a documentary, you don't have actors, but nonetheless, there is a writing process that does take place in the editing room.

I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

I never said that I was going to do a documentary talking about my experiences of colourism. I think people took it the wrong way with the working title - 'Leigh-Anne: Race and Colourism.' That's not what I was doing, I'm here to amplify the voices of darker-skinned women and hear their experiences.

Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there.

I don't want to be on a soapbox, but I feel like a lot of documentary filmmakers are part of the ancient tradition of writing down notes, of saying, 'Hey people, hey people!'

When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, 'What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?'