Distinction Quote by Abbas Kiarostami

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

We exaggerate the difference between documentary and fiction. I think that on some level a fiction film is also a documentary on the actors.…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

Most people look at a feature film and say, "It's just a movie." For me there is no border or wall between fiction and…

— Mano Khalil

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have…

— Jean-Luc Godard

A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film…

— Cate Blanchett

This whole business of documentary being a second-class citizen is bullshit. A documentary can be as interesting, as dramatic, as sad, as funny, blah,…

— Frederick Wiseman

In documentary, you are sometimes burdened, or you feel very responsible for dealing with - I want to say - more complicated themes. Fiction…

— Debra Granik

Yeah, I think any type of filmmaking is good as an on-ramp to making films. But I will say that documentary filmmakers have a…

— RaMell Ross

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

— Mike Mills

The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me. Documentaries are…

— Richard Ray Perez

I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fiction…

— John Hyams

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a…

— Jonathan Demme