Top Documentary Quotes
I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
Jack Brickhouse
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
Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.
Wavy Gravy
Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?
Gene Siskel
It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary.
Jeri Ryan
Ken Burns 
Jack Brickhouse 
Sun Myung Moon 
Jeri Ryan 
Beau Bridges 
Diane Cilento 
Dennis Hopper 
Dennis Muren 
Monica Lewinsky All Documentary Quotes
My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.
Lee Grant 
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The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say.
Ann Macbeth
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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
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Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
Bruce Jackson
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It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales.
Wavy Gravy
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Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.
Anita Diament
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I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.
Ken Burns
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I want to do a documentary about strippers, 'cause it's a moneymaker.
Method Man
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Popular Documentary Authors
Alfred HitchcockKen BurnsBruce JacksonJeri RyanColin MochrieSun Myung MoonBrian De PalmaJulia RobertsDougray ScottRichard DonnerHarold H. GreeneMonica LewinskyBeau BridgesDiane CilentoBrandon Routh
Ann MacbethMethod ManTrevor NunnBradley WhitfordJeremy NorthamAnita DiamentGeri HalliwellDennis MurenStephen HopkinsNoel ReddingBenjamin CohenMartin BashirLee GrantMaximilian SchellBen Edwards
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