65 Quotes About Documentaries
- Author Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
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- Author Robert Conquest
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You made a point about proof. In this sort of history we do nt have proof... Yet... the incontrovertibility of the evidence can be plain even when it is not documentary or complete.
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- Author Stephanie Coontz
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Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.
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- Author David Dixon
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As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,.
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- Author Jonathan Demme
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I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.
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- Author Roger Ebert
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A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.
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- Author Jean-Luc Godard
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If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.
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- Author Jean-Luc Godard
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Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.
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- Author Lauren Greenfield
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I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.
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