209 Documentary Quotes for You to Enjoy

It's weird writing for a documentary because I have all these ideas for what I want to happen, but what actually happens is obviously completely different. Chris Cubas

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I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that. Chris Lilley

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I don't know if I'd mastered that documentary format, but I wanted to move on from it. Christopher Guest

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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. Cilla Black

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We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second. Colin Mochrie

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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time. Dana Snyder

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When you make feature films, you have a script, which is a bible. The final result should be as it was written down on paper. And in documentary, you can write whatever you want, but life brings you situations where you have to be fast thinking, fast moving. Danis Tanovic

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Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in. Darren Aronofsky

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Movies, to a large extent, stand or fall on the strength of their scripts. But a documentary is a collection of found objects: fragments you've collected, accidents of interview and happenstance, pieces of stock footage that surface in the course of six to nine months of research and production. David Fanning

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I was the first independent to walk in with a documentary. David L. Wolper

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There is a porous membrane between a documentary that doesn't use interviews and what you would call a neorealist hybrid film. Debra Granik

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I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to it and first-person camera view that is a new thing for me. I've done some stuff like that before, but nothing like the extent of this and digitally. Dennis Muren

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When people think of biblical movies, they imagine sweeping epics like 'The Ten Commandments.' But 'The Gospel According to St. Matthew' is essentially a documentary about Jesus. It made me aware of how real life and personal experience can create more breathtaking, sensitive cinema than more sophisticated techniques. Derek Cianfrance

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When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary. Diane Cilento

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If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there. Eddie Redmayne

The older I've gotten, the more I've gotten a little precious about music-related films as it comes to biopics. I kind of don't want to see it; I'd rather see a documentary. And this is just coming from me. I love music documentaries; I kind of don't want to see people embodying those people. Elijah Wood

As a documentary filmmaker, 'Meru' was an irresistible challenge. You can spend years searching for the right story, but this one had all the elements: the obstacles, the characters, and the drama. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

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The documentary 'Certifiably Jonathan' has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It's got a great subject - the extraordinarily voluble comedian Jonathan Winters, whose constant rush of words can be like a blizzard: beautiful, maddening, exhausting, and finally beautiful again. But it's not a great film. Elvis Mitchell

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I watching this Disney documentary, and I'm not Disney, but I was thinking about Mickey Mouse and he became an icon. Walt moved onto other things but he made him exist. I was thinking, 'Wow, is 'Samurai Jack' my 'Mickey Mouse?' Am I stupid to stop working on it?' Genndy Tartakovsky

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People never read my books for the quality of the documentary value. Geoff Dyer

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