I'm primarily an actor and only make documentaries when I…

I only ever wanted to do history, and make documentaries.

— David Olusoga

I would make documentaries if it was a worthy cause. I have a lot of respect for people who put themselves in harm's way…

— Eliot Sumner

People who make documentaries have to be faithful to the facts. But when you are making a drama, a fiction based on the life,…

— Milos Forman

You make documentaries because you love doing it; it's the only sane reason to make documentaries.

— Morgan Neville

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

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about…

— Jeremy Northam

I make documentaries. I attend film festivals. I don't have time to sit at cafes taking selfies.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

Stories, as we're taught in journalism school early on, are told through people. Those stories make our documentaries powerful. You can explore someone's culture,…

— Soledad O'Brien

I'd like to make documentaries. Way-out documentaries. I'd like to do one on a tour of the U.S.

— Dave Clark

Because in this business, as you know, you don't get that many bites at the apple, so I make documentaries for HBO and that's…

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on the sides…

— Bruce Weber

I have written before, but I was primarily an actor and improvisational performer.

— Paula Pell

I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct,…

— Eli Roth

As far as documentaries go, I believe unreservedly that they serve an important function in our culture. I'd love to be able to make…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

I think we need to make documentaries about fantasy and storytelling. I think I just started to scratch the surface of a method that…

— Joshua Oppenheimer