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Documentary Quotes

Griffin Dunne quote: "Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking."
Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking. Griffin Dunne
Steven Spielberg quote: "Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second..."
Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'. Steven Spielberg
Bruce Jackson quote: "Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of..."
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility. Bruce Jackson
I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as discreet as possible, and flexible enough to be able to capture the moment when it happens. I know from documentary how to not have a preconceived idea of what the scene could be. Michel Gondry
Philip Seymour Hoffman quote: "Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a..."
Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction. Philip Seymour Hoffman
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
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
There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary, if it was on 16mm. But, with the magic of digital. Lloyd Kaufman
The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things. Bruce Jackson
One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do. Michael Apted
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history. Joseph Conrad
You think that drinking with a serial killer takes you into the midnight currents of the culture? I say bullshit. There's been twelve TV documentaries, three movies and eight books about me. I'm more popular than any of these designed-by-pedophile pop moppets littering the music television and the gossip columns. I've killed more people than Paris Hilton has desemenated, I was famous before she was here and I'll be famous after she's gone. I am the mainstream. I am, in fact, the only true... Warren Ellis
Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. George Orwell
...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated. Jorge Amado
Alfred Hitchcock quote: "In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God..."
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director" - Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock

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