Quotes About Documentaries

There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving.

'30 for 30s' are amazing. They're little documentaries and can be anywhere from half an hour to an hour-and-a-half - great sports stories.

I've always been weirdly interested in food documentaries.

I only ever wanted to do history, and make documentaries.

I never say I make documentaries. I say I make television.

The thing that's made me open my eyes to what was happening to the environment and climate was films and documentaries.

It was through watching documentaries on the BBC in the late 1980s that I first became interested in art and history.

As with the Trojans or the Tudors, there are many evergreen stories that we come back to again and again. I think history documentaries are as much about the present as they are the past.

I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.

Like many environmental documentaries, 'Planet of Humans' endorses debunked Malthusian ideas that the world is running out of energy.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

I've seen all those movies, of course. Schindler's List, The Pianist, Sophie's Choice. And I've watched a few documentaries and read a few books. But you don't really get a sense of it until you're actually there, do you? Have you ever been, Mrs F.?' I said nothing.

Too many documentaries are intellectual exercises. I want documentaries to be alive.

I'm a Louis Theroux addict.

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob.