Quotes by Documentary Filmmakers

I think our natural disposition as humans is to plod along until we get old and stop. But with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama.

Jon Ronson

Cuban eyes often look close to tears. Tears never seem far away because both their pain and their joy are always so close to the surface.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been.

Richard Proenneke

Technology is a means, not an end, no matter how brilliant it appears. How we use digital technology, exploit it and benefit from it depends on old-fashioned political concepts of how we treat each other: how we approach class, race, gender and war and peace. Nothing has changed in that regard. At present, we are ruled by an extreme version of capitalism called 'neoliberalism'. Technology in the service of any extremism has a catastrophic history.

JohnPilger