One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
This whole business of documentary being a second-class citizen is bullshit. A documentary can be as interesting, as dramatic, as sad, as… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary,… — Lloyd Kaufman Copy Share Image
When critics talk about Three, they talk about 'Don't Tell the Bride' and 'Snog Marry Avoid?,' but we're also making important documentaries.… — Stacey Dooley Copy Share Image
I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought there was no way… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
A documentary film is a great way of helping people understand because, somehow, when one is able to see the people involved,… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
If you're able to appeal to a broader market, you can make an entertaining narrative film. Whereas a documentary is something that… — Nick Searcy Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in Vietnam, feel it's a seminal event in our nation's history, and have explored it over the years… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
In documentary, you're directing with your camera even if you're not saying anything. So I was familiar with working with a person… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Nonfiction filmmakers were afflicted by two problems: one technical, the other spiritual. Technically, they did not have the equipment to do the… — Robert Drew Copy Share Image
“I’ve always been shocked by how many documentary producers and/or directors have a sleazy attitude to ethics. Stick around in this business… — Martin Belderson Copy Share Image
I left acting for a couple of years to found my company, Wayfarer, and the first project I did was this documentary… — Justin Baldoni Copy Share Image
The reason I like tracking shots has to do more with a sense of real time than anything else. In 'Gravity,' the… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
Post my parents' divorce, when I was 10, my mother, Deepa Motwane, took up a job as a line producer with documentary… — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the… — Paul Rotha Copy Share Image
I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or quarter-fiction. The two should not go together. They… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I watched the Michael Jordan documentary and it made me hungry, it made me want to get the best out of everyone… — Ollie Watkins Copy Share Image
The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you… — Jamie Johnson Copy Share Image
I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give… — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
I think most albums deserve a documentary because [an album] is a visual book. You don't have to read up on it… — Nas Copy Share Image
When was the last time you saw a documentary that fundamentally changed the way you think? ...Pandora’s Promise is built around what… — Owen Gleiberman Copy Share Image
For me, the making of a documentary to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain was an intensely personal journey.… — David Jason Copy Share Image
Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to… — Brian De Palma 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
In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a… — Graciela Iturbide 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
Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping,… — Method Man 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 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
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
“While there, I was asked to be interviewed for The 11th Hour, a documentary about the state of the global environment produced… — Sheila Watt-Cloutier 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
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and… — Ken Burns 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
As for documentary, it was a natural progression from my earlier career in journalism. The two media are connected, but of course… — Nancy Kates Copy Share Image
My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image