Quotes of: Documentary-film Keyword

It's hard to make a living doing documentaries. Frankly, if it takes you five years to do a film, and that's the only film you're doing, you're in trouble.

Alex Gibney

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

Meshell Ndegeocello

I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

Jamie Bell

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

Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.

Terry Zwigoff

We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect interesting documentaries and films, and watch a few nights a week.

Bjork

When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on the sides and all around you. I like that in my films.

Bruce Weber

I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishing that the reality I was filming would conform to my narrative propriety. But you can't control it.

Ruth Ozeki

Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

Bruce Jackson

Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

Gene Siskel

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

Walter Salles

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

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

Mark Zupan

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

Leos Carax

Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

Barbara Kopple

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

Beau Bridges

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

Werner Herzog

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.

Julia Roberts

I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but it's difficult to find backing for them.

Marc Singer

I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason.

Errol Morris

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

Jamie Bell