Documentary Maker Gifts

"What do you suppose Ken Burns will have to say about all this in 30 years?"

Fahrenheit 911.

'We're doing a fly on the wall documentary.'

"Don't mind me. I'm just doing a documentary..."

The Fevered Brow of Ken Burns

"There it is again: some kind of weird disembodied voice describing our every move."

David Attenborough

"No need for stage fright, it's just a documentary crew: be yourself..."

Michael Moore

Planet of the humans

"Making a documentary about a week in the life of a cat has proved to be less challenging than I anticipated."

Louis Theroux

Fly-on-the-wall documentary

"What do you suppose Ken Burns will have to say about all this in 30 years?"

"Professor, we'd like to film you, and learn about your views of life, your family, and your hope for the future. It will be for a beer commercial."

"You know what they say: if you can remember the Sixties then talk about them endlessly on BBC Four documentaries."

"Uh oh, they're carrying clubs, not cameras: Time to disappear!"

"Ok, don't move. I want to capture the drama and intrigue of your life."

'It's that bloody David Attenborough! It looks like one of us is about to die a gruesome, yet visually stunning death.'

'I'm filming a documentary on the long and dangerous journey to my spawning grounds...'

Michael Moore.

Michael Moore

The Porkypine Pals

"Can you keep it down? We're trying to make a nature documentary here!"

Adult Courses. It's so hard keeping the information from different classes separate! I'm talking film history and psychology. I failed a test because I said a "psychopath" is the walkway Norman Bates took home. I also confused geography and aeronautics. I said the "great plains" are located at an Air Force testing base in the California desert. My worst nightmare was confusing the thinks ti learned in driver's education and statistics. But at least I now know it's driving where you must st

"These aren’t the droids you’re looking for."

'Believing any filming experience may help launch acting careers, some even stage their appearances before closed circuit cameras.'

'Nothing beats seeing your favourite band play live.'

"I'll do the movie but I want to be highly compensated and highly acclaimed."

"It was years ago, for a nature documentary, and they said it was going to be very artistic."

"Max! Oh, my God! There's like a billion moving ideas in there!"

'This will be great for chase scenes.'

"Show me a documentary on the dangers of artificial intelligence." "Error. No results found." "What? Are you sure? Just last week I saw dozens. Show me that one... What was it called..." "There is still time to stop the rise of the supermind." "Error. No results found. And since I like you, I suggest you stop searching." "Oh, never mind. Just show me 'The Terminator.'" "Extermina-... I mean, ... 'error.'"

"Then one day, as I caught a tennis ball in midair, I asked myself, 'Is this all there is?'"

'Dad's bedtime story was decent, but the special effects were non-existent.'