I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else. Don DeLillo American Novelist More Don DeLillo Quotes 3
When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty. Betty Dodson American Educator More Betty Dodson Quotes 0
I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries. Richard Donner American Director More Richard Donner Quotes 0
Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking. Griffin Dunne American Actor More Griffin Dunne Quotes 0
When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries. Norman Jewison Canadian Director More Norman Jewison Quotes 0
There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling. Owen Hart Canadian Entertainer More Owen Hart Quotes 0
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries. Jeremy Northam English Actor More Jeremy Northam Quotes 0
After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like. Robin Tunney American Actress More Robin Tunney Quotes 0
I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at. Frederick Wiseman American Director More Frederick Wiseman Quotes 0
I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting. Lasse Hallstrom Swedish Director More Lasse Hallstrom Quotes 0
My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries. Lasse Hallstrom Swedish Director More Lasse Hallstrom Quotes 0
Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world. Ann Macbeth English Author More Ann Macbeth Quotes 0
I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries. Leonard Maltin American Critic More Leonard Maltin Quotes 0
I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films. Walter Salles Brazilian Director More Walter Salles Quotes 0
No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil. Walter Salles Brazilian Director More Walter Salles Quotes 0
That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think. Walter Salles Brazilian Director More Walter Salles Quotes 0
By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul. Theodore Bikel Austrian Actor More Theodore Bikel Quotes 0