Documentary Film Quotes
Filmmaker lines on documentaries, history, and awareness
These quotes explore documentary film through the eyes of directors and viewers, including memories of first learning what the form even was. For related lines, see our documentary quotes collection.
Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.
Phantom Films is an established production house and it will help to spread awareness about the documentary film 'Katiyabaaz' among the audience. I saw this film and I loved it. Then we decided to support this film.
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I would love to direct a documentary film if any good subject comes my way.
When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary film was.
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I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as an agent of Iraq. The FBI has also opened up an investigation into my wife calling...
When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
Directing plays lacked the immediacy and connection to real world events that journalism offered; journalism lacked the drama, theatricality and subjective storytelling of theater. It wasn't until I had the idea of making a documentary film about the 1992 presidential...
I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.
We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico.
Camera Quotes
I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
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Some quotes recall difficult historical subject matter that documentaries have brought to light, described here in a neutral, factual way. See also our about quotes page.
