Quotes About Documentary

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Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.

Phillipe Petit

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

Anthony de Mello

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

Frank Capra

You can say "I love you" in Helvetica. And you can say it with Helvetica Extra Light if you want it be really fancy. Or you can say it with the Extra Bold if it's really intensive and passionate. And it might work.

Massimo Vignelli

We're trying to reinforce the idea that you don't have to have money to have fun, read, be educated, see a band or watch a documentary.

Josh Banno

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

Spike Lee

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

Werner Herzog

If you aren't an activist you're an inactivist.

Richard O'Barry

The film is visually stunning, filled with more breathtaking shots than you can count: silently falling snow; clouds' moving shadows caressing a green mountainside; a bird singing on a single, bare branch; the cold white moon set against a midnight sky. It's pure poetry.