With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Maybe it's good a thing that people see me this way [in the documentary film]. They expect to see me with the… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
Documentary film is the one place that our people can speak for themselves. I feel that the documentaries that I've been working… — Alanis Obomsawin 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 am particularly pleased to see that there are so many women working in documentary film. — Chris Hegedus Copy Share Image
When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
I'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary,… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
I spent a year and a half working for an art fair. I worked as a post-production assistant for a documentary film… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
Michael Moore announced that his next documentary film will attack the health care industry in America. He's not out to get the… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
Making an independent documentary film is so hard that usually, the usual model is that your film becomes a model for advocacy,… — Tim Hetherington Copy Share Image
Twenty to thirty years ago, who was making documentary films? Nobody. Well, relatively few people. It was an art form that had… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
In documentary films, being able to be a storytelling and embrace film as an art form - while being very clearly connected… — James Redford Copy Share Image
There is so much investment in it of people's labor time that it will never make money. But there are other documentaries… — Liz Garbus Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film.… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed. — Naomi Wolf 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
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 don't think you make documentary films to get your country house. If you're trying to gamble on that, you've very foolish. — Liz Garbus Copy Share Image
People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in… — Alex Hammond Copy Share Image
It's rare in a documentary film that you have a repetitive act. So when you do, you can shoot it in different… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
Like theatre, crafting a documentary film takes tremendous commitment, patience and passion. — Dori Berinstein Copy Share Image
The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me.… — Richard Ray Perez Copy Share Image
I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it. — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image