Lack of diversity in Hollywood has been well documented thanks to #OscarSoWhite, but lack of diversity in the documentary world is less… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I… — Brett Morgen Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
I have a 22-year-old son, and when my son was born I made a decision to raise him. My husband and I… — Maryse Alberti Copy Share Image
Back in 2007, I met this white guy [director Peter Byck] with a lot of hair and a video camera, at a… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
A documentary on MTV about the Dutch scene was what sparked it all. I saw guys like Tiesto and Ferry Corsten talking… — Hardwell Copy Share Image
I've known Owen's father Ron [Suskind] for years, and this was based on his best-selling book ["Life, Animated"]. We worked together as… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
I've been wanting to do a documentary on the true heart of the groupie ever since I was one. The groupie is… — Pamela Des Barres Copy Share Image
Non-fiction or documentaries can tell any kind of a story because they don't have to adhere to the rules of what's possible.… — Morgan Neville 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
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
With newspapers cutting foreign bureaus and budgets shrinking for long-form, investigative journalism, documentary filmmakers are often filling a void nowadays in the… — Matthew Heineman 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 am a director and I think actually they're not that different - dramas and docs aren't that different. When I'm doing… — Asif Kapadia Copy Share Image
My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don't make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I love 'Robot Chicken,' 'The Boondocks' and 'America's Funniest Home Videos.' Then there's this show called 'The First 48.' It's a documentary… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
My wife made me watch this documentary about the Iraq War, and there was a really powerful moment where they followed some… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Yeah, I think any type of filmmaking is good as an on-ramp to making films. But I will say that documentary filmmakers… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
I watching this Disney documentary, and I'm not Disney, but I was thinking about Mickey Mouse and he became an icon. Walt… — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
I remember somebody saying something to me about Frost/Nixon, when Anthony Hopkins does his famous speech, and the difference in the way… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
In a fiction film, we know at some level we've suspended disbelief. In a documentary, we know that we're watching a drama… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
There's a really great documentary called 'Many Rivers,' which documents the totality of slavery from its inception, and then it gives you… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where… — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
"Plaza de la Soledad" is a documentary about Carmen, Lety, Raquel and Esther, four strong women - middle-aged and older - who… — Maya Goded Copy Share Image
The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
There's a great documentary on Tupac called 'Resurrection' about the last few years of Tupac's life and how he transformed. And, ironically,… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Growing up either from classes or watching movies I knew, of course, about kung fu, karate, aikido, Muay Thai... But the first… — Gareth Evans Copy Share Image
I think it's important for History to keep experimenting with their shows. The more documentary-driven, the returning series, are the bottom of… — Nancy Dubuc 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
We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
When I think about the new film, I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,'… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
I watched the documentary 'I Hate Christian Laettner,' and I really hate Christian Laettner. It made me understand why everybody hates Christian… — Seth Rollins Copy Share Image
I'll let the record [Who You Selling For] speak for itself. I don't want to get too in-depth with my personal opinions… — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
The documentary 'Certifiably Jonathan' has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It's got a great subject - the extraordinarily voluble… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
![“Back in 2007, I met this white guy [director Peter Byck] with a lot of hair and a video camera, at a conference that I happened to be attending for the launch of an organization called Blacks in Green. I had never heard of him and Peter had never heard of me. We just started talking; he liked what…” quote by Van Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/244/van-jones-984_attending_back-in-2007-i-met-this-white-guy-direct_2563243.png)
![“I've known Owen's father Ron [Suskind] for years, and this was based on his best-selling book ["Life, Animated"]. We worked together as journalists at ABC-TV News, and I knew about the book since its inception. Before he finished it, he approached me and said he thought it would make a great…” quote by Roger Ross Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/275/roger-ross-williams-5118_agree_i-ve-known-owen-s-father-ron-suskind-for_1827238.jpg)
![“You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has row after row of people bending over and digging out carrots - that can be very tedious. And so it's only once in a while that something happens that is worth doing.” quote by Imogen Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6c/imogen-cunningham-15682_bending_you-know-a-documentary-is-only-interesti_2195096.png)
![“I'll let the record [Who You Selling For] speak for itself. I don't want to get too in-depth with my personal opinions of it and where the songs came from because I think it messes with the listener to know the inside mindset of the writer. For example, I watched a Pink Floyd documentary the other…” quote by Taylor Momsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/830/taylor-momsen-2575_crazy_i-ll-let-the-record-who-you-selling-for_2493472.jpg)
