“Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were poetry, would be more like Ezra Pound. There is a lot of information in most of my pictures, but not the kind of information you see in documentary photography. There is emotional information in my photographs.” IfsKindWould BeInformationEmotionalPhotographyPhotographerPhotographPoundsDocumentariesHaikuDocumentary Photography Author:Sally Mann
“I read "Milk" and immediately I was very emotional after reading it and then I saw the documentary - the one that Rob Epstein did - and I said that's it. I saw it with my daughter and that was it. This thing is a different thing. It's like I've been offered these kind of superhero movies or "Terminator" or whatever those movies are and I just go ahh.” KindSaidDifferentReadingSawsEmotionalDaughterDifferent ThingsMy DaughterMilkDocumentariesSuperhero Author:Josh Brolin
“First of all, being a woman is an incredible asset in many ways in making documentaries. You can be less intimidating, you have a heightened emotional sensitivity and you have the ability to listen to multiple conversations at one time and multi-task.” WayFirstsAbilityEmotionalConversationTasksIncrediblesAssetsOne TimeMultipleSensitivityDocumentariesIntimidatingBeing A Woman Author:Ondi Timoner
“Thhe essence of documentary filmmaking is how you manipulate the material to create an emotional impact, as opposed to just delivering information.” InformationEmotionalMaterialsEssenceImpactFilmmakingDocumentariesManipulateDelivering Author:Richard Ray Perez
“Unlike a lot of British directors, I hadn't done any theater. But, I had a great mentor who said, "What you're looking for is exactly the same thing you've done in your documentaries, which is moments of emotional truth.” SaidDoneMomentsEmotionalDirectorsTheaterBritishGreat MenMentorDocumentaries Author:Susanna White
“A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life, emotional, documentary-style, not big and cinematic and ultimately like the kind of movie I wanted to make.” KindBigsWantedStyleEmotionalDocumentariesCinematicSlice Of Life Author:Dan Trachtenberg
“Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual literal truth of an event.” RealityFictionEventsEmotionalHopefullyRealisticDocumentariesNon FictionLiteralHyperCondensation Author:Joe Berlinger