I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I…

I think the beauty of documentary work is that it's a mystery - you never know where it's going to lead you. You start…

— Gail Levin

Documentary films have always been my passion, I have done documentaries.

— Shoojit Sircar

Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

— Bela Fleck

My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.

— Noel Redding

There's a lot of documentaries out in the world; it sometimes seems as if there's no topic left!

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

I've had frustrated storytelling juices that have been lying dormant for a long time, and I guess the documentary was a way of me…

— Eric Bana

There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.

— Joshua Oppenheimer

Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasn’t there!…

— Carolyn Cassady

If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or…

— David Oyelowo

The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what…

— James Nachtwey

I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

— Mary Ellen Mark

By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.

— Natalie Merchant

Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a…

— Jon Spaihts

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

— Martin Parr

The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's…

— Frank Gohlke