What's great about documentary genre, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Maybe every two films you need to do documentary to tell what you really want to tell and not be limited by… — Fatih Ak?n Copy Share Image
It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping,… — Method Man Copy Share Image
I mostly like documentaries, so I always think things that happened in real life are so astounding that why would you make… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
If I wanted an open space, I could do a documentary about fishes. Then I would have an open space to play… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
I'm a curious guy. I can't turn away from an investigative story, when it comes to the forensic analysis. I've done 33… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
While the documentary community is way ahead of Hollywood, it is still nowhere near where it needs to be. Filmmakers of color… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
“The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I was fooled a bit during 'Laguna Beach.' I was 17, 18 years old, and I thought they just wanted to shoot… — Stephen Colletti Copy Share Image
That's what I love about documentary filmmaking, we never know where the story is going, we don't know what is going to… — Gordon Quinn Copy Share Image
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
I don't think there's so much difference between making documentaries and feature films. I think it's even harder to make documentaries. — Danis Tanovic Copy Share Image
When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
I watched this documentary on Madonna. I remember I grew up hearing she wanted to rule the world. Actually, she worked really… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
“While there, I was asked to be interviewed for The 11th Hour, a documentary about the state of the global environment produced… — Sheila Watt-Cloutier Copy Share Image
Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural.… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
As for documentary, it was a natural progression from my earlier career in journalism. The two media are connected, but of course… — Nancy Kates Copy Share Image
Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Immediately after film school, I got an opportunity to work as a freelance cameraperson. I used to shoot a documentary film for… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures. — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
I learned how to tell stories with Jay-Z on 'City Is Mine.' I learned how to film and choreograph dancing on 'Can… — Steve Carr Copy Share Image
We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in… — Bradley Whitford Copy Share Image
The documentary in reality very much operates with these stereotypes in mind. You're either good or evil, you're either righteous or a… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
In Delhi, I got a chance to assist someone on a documentary film. Then I moved to Mumbai. This was before the… — Anubhav Sinha Copy Share Image
There's a documentary film-maker called Werner Herzog, who's a German film-maker. I really dig his stuff, I'd love to chat with him. — Finn Jones Copy Share Image
It's not exactly an interview that's going on [in documentary]. I guess we do ask Edward Snowden some questions and we're recording… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding… — Benjamin Avila Copy Share Image
It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these… — Wavy Gravy Copy Share Image
Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
When I do feature films, I usually have a very strong sense of what I want to do. I have topics and… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a… — Thom Powers Copy Share Image
The work of WikiLeaks is with principal documentary evidence; that's where the truth lies. It gets to the heart of the matter.… — Sara Harrison Copy Share Image
This is not a documentary. Are there essential truths that are captured by this movie? I think unquestionably the answer is yes.… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image