Documentary Quotes
On truth, sensitivity, and the craft of filmmaking.
These documentary quotes range from a personal project about the speaker to broader reflections on treating real subjects with care behind the camera. See our Documentaries quotes for more on the format.
Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
Documentaries Quotes
Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.
The documentary genre, shows like 'Making a Murderer' and 'The Jinx' on HBO, there's been a whole raft of long-form docs.
Documentary Film Quotes
When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.
I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.
Documenting Quotes
'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
Real Life Quotes
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.
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