Quotes About Documentary

I can't pick a favorite animal; I love so many! But I guess if I have to choose, I pick bees! There's this brilliant documentary called 'Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?' I think it's important for people to be educated about bees - they pollinate almost all the food we eat. They are amazing!

When I graduated from Brown after majoring in women's studies, I made my first PBS documentary, 'Women of Substance.' My first feature documentary was called 'American Hollow,' which I did for HBO and was at the Sundance Film Festival.

For someone like me, making a documentary - I don't kid myself. There's no influence at all. What I do is entertainment. I would even say much the same about the column I write in 'The Sunday Times.'

I don't go to McDonald's anymore. After I saw Super Size Me... no way!

In fact, what is amazing about this find is that scholars of every stripe—conservative Christians, liberal Christians, believers in Judaism, and secular Jewish scholars—agreed en masse that the special had missed the mark and hadn't come close to making its case.

However, the documentary reveals how far people will go to try to make Christianity into Jesusanity;

I'm not in politics.

I've been fairly private about my personal life. I've been approached by other companies to do a documentary about cosplay and about my life, but I've never felt comfortable.

I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.

It has taken a lot of persuasion for me to take part in an official documentary about 'Only Fools and Horses.' But, as time has gone on, it seems to have been imprinted in television history, and I thought it was only right that I tried to give an accurate insight into how the show was put together.

I'm a happy person! I guess I'm not as much of a pessimist as most documentary filmmakers.

David Attenborough's 'Life' series is phenomenal. He's a wonderful modern soothsayer.

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

With a documentary, you can cut away, you can do jump cuts, cut to a photograph at any point to bridge two scenes.

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.

I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

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

I've been really interested and inspired by Nan Goldin, the photographer.

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

Photography can be a powerful instrument for change, and photojournalists can tell stories that make a difference.

I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.