Documentarian Quotes

#1. Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.

Jean De La Bruyere

#2. Hypothesis: Brothers and sisters forge family bonds through a complex byplay of accusations and insults.

Gordon Korman

#3. If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

Errol Morris

#4. Creating fear and loathing of gay and lesbian Americans has proven, year after year, to be the most effective say for Dobson and the other fundamentalist Christian leaders to raise millions of dollars and recruit millions of volunteers to support their long-range campaign to take back America.

Mel White

#5. Honesty works against you in the entertainment field. I try to be a journalist and a documentarian, but that doesn't mean that people are going to embrace it at the moment. The point is I'm leaving the mark of my hysteria and the political hysteria, and that's it ... I can only do what I do.

Lydia Lunch

#6. So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.

Robert Haugen

#7. For my part, as a filmmaker, I've never been a fly-on-the-wall documentarian. I have no commitment to that method. I believe it's a lie.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#8. Become a documentarian of what you do.

Austin Kleon

#9. Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. I'm so proud of Jason's [Benjamin] work. I can say this and he can't, but there's no group of documentary subjects more devoted to their documentarian. The vibes are really positive, and I feel so lucky.

Lena Dunham

#11. Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

Leonard Maltin

#12. I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter

Todd Hido

#13. Honey, five-years-olds say what they think. Knowing what to say and when is called being an adult.

Lindsay J. Pryor

#14. The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.

Horace Greeley

#15. I've always been a bit of a documentarian.

Ian MacKaye

#16. I am a documentarian of what I do.

Gay Talese

#17. Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Baruch Spinoza

#18. The determination and enthusiasm of the Category 5 team makes it the perfect home for my music as I embark on this next stage of my career. The promotional savvy and level of support they've pledged meets or exceeds anything I've seen from the major labels I've been associated with.

Travis Tritt

#19. Government jobs are not an addition to the country's payroll; they are an increase in the nation's payload.

Ilana Mercer

#20. I'm a moviemaker, not a documentarian. I try to hit the truth.

Ridley Scott

#21. Writing's all I know. Frankly, I've never been able to do anything else.

Christopher Buckley

#22. If an angelic being fell from the sky and tried to live in this world of ours I think even they would commit many wrongs.

Sui Ishida