I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way. — Lucy Walker 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
Documentaries sometimes can be shot over 10 years. You plan to stop in two, but you still gotta catch more. — Gza Copy Share Image
That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from,… — Walter Salles Copy Share Image
In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received. — Matthew Gray Gubler 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
You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens. — Ed Cunningham Copy Share Image
I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I've done experimental work, I've done real conventional documentaries that were very successful, like Las Madres that was nominated for an Academy… — Lourdes Portillo Copy Share Image
Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you're focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don't have, focusing… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
People watch more documentaries too now. These movies that would normally be shown in these little art houses, and unless you walked… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
A lot of documentaries have been made very quickly, but I think they're like frogs in an ecosystem: They're harbingers. Film is… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated… — Scott Ritter Copy Share Image
I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
I loved watching documentaries and had wanted to try making one for years - I'd just put it off as other opportunities… — Marshall Curry 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
There's a really geeky YouTube channel which I love. It's a guy called Oliver Harper. He makes documentaries about films. He's a… — Kayvan Novak Copy Share Image
How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story? — Martha Rosler Copy Share Image
The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it. — Sonia Braga 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
I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new… — James Marsh 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
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
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
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 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
My dad had a dream of his kids reaching the NFL. My older brother was actually the first to make it. His… — DeSean Jackson Copy Share Image
There's a wide range today of documentaries on politics. The central mass of it is made by networks, and nothing's changed. — Robert Drew 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
Documentaries require an enormous amount of grit and empathy - and that is something women are incredibly strong at. — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Copy Share Image
I was no stranger to risk myself, having made documentaries in dangerous conditions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Africa. — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Copy Share Image
A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life, emotional, documentary-style, not big and cinematic and ultimately like the… — Dan Trachtenberg Copy Share Image
I’ve long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special. — Joe Morgenstern Copy Share Image
If you care about the 2012 election and value the voices of regular Americans who lost hope in their hope and change… — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
Documentaries are unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to… — Cosima Spender Copy Share Image
When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on… — Bruce Weber Copy Share Image
I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
