Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Conquest

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.

Robin Tunney

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like

Werner Herzog

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.

Robert Zemeckis

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

Eric Rohmer

A good film is also a documentary

Terry Zwigoff

Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.

Lauren Greenfield

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

Jonathan Demme

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.

Ed Cunningham

You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens.

Tupac Shakur

If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.

Weegee

I am a perfectionist. When I take a picture...it's gotta be good.

W. Eugene Smith

The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no.

Sam Abell

It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that time.

Sam Abell

My least favorite photographer to have would be myself. Someone who wanted a career at National Geographic. Because it's almost mathematically impossible to achieve that.

Sam Abell

Yes, there are billions more photographers, and billions more photographs every day, but who's building up a point of view? Who's photographing with intention, and whose body of work will sustain itself and survive?

Henry Rollins

I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

Elliott Erwitt

Ill always be an amateur photographer.

Elliott Erwitt

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.

Julie Gonzalo

I admire a lot of Spanish filmmakers and actors. I grew up watching a lot of Spanish films and novellas, and there's just so much talent out there.

James Tobin

I think the filmmakers and I were interested in telling stories that weren't well known,

Todd Phillips

I think any filmmaker looks back and thinks, 'Boy, if we only had four hours more on that day when the sun was going down,' or, 'If we only spent more time and went back.'

Evan Osnos

If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian.

Joe Carnahan

I hope I can become a good enough filmmaker where I can take a script that I'm not 'heart and soul' into, but I could still make something really great out of it.

Alison Owen

The greatest filmmakers are not the ones who put everything in; they're the ones who can figure things to leave out, and in doing so, invite your participation.

Steve Erickson

It's not always clear whether the filmmaker intends our alienation or is even aware of it.

Charlize Theron

It's our job as filmmakers to reflect the world right now, and this year has proven that you can make these movies and make them not taste like medicine.

Dexter Fletcher

'Sunshine' is really an experiment for me to see if I am a filmmaker beyond having my own stories to tell.