In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
When I hear the word 'documentary,' I don't think certain things should be left out. You've got to keep it 100 percent… — Phife Dawg Copy Share Image
I was 13 years old when I first heard of the Sultan of Brunei. The absolute ruler of a tiny, oil-rich kingdom… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
I'm still producing scripted features, and I am already working on a new documentary project with Norman Lear and Lara Bergthold. It… — Linda Goldstein Knowlton Copy Share Image
I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
So it is that one side effect of the HD revolution has been the gratifying and edifying return of the nature documentary… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
As the world of independent feature filmmaking became increasingly commercialized by the mid-1990s, there was also a parallel, much more positive development:… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful documentary called 'A Room to Breathe,' where a school brought in a TM instructor, to try and establish… — James Redford Copy Share Image
I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up.… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
What is interesting to me about film, and documentary film in particular, is that I can write about these people, and you… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
I hope 'Warning: This Drug May Kill You' documentary helps to show the humanity of the people who are struggling with the… — Perri Peltz Copy Share Image
We'd been approached various times during our career about a documentary, but we always hesitated to say yes, because what we do… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
The main reason why I'm a documentary filmmaker is the power of the medium. The most powerful films I've seen have been… — Richard Ray Perez Copy Share Image
I watched a TV documentary about how animals are farmed, killed and prepared for us to eat. I saw all those cows… — David Haye Copy Share Image
It's an interesting thing - that film fills in for history - because I think it's both one of the most beautiful… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
You could make a feature about the world of tickling. You could include female ticklers and you could find out why people… — David Farrier Copy Share Image
The documentary feature film 'Legion of Brothers' tells the stories of the handful of U.S. Special Forces soldiers who, shortly after the… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
I always tell aspiring documentary filmmakers, 'You have to go into it because you love it; if you go into it for… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
I first started making films - this is my first feature, but I was making shorts - I was actually freelancing as… — Richard Press Copy Share Image
In previous years, Taylor Swift has been outspoken on the American political front as depicted in her documentary, 'Miss Americana.' In 2018,… — Brett Cooper Copy Share Image
The nice thing about a documentary, I think, is that so much of it is editing, too. You sort of get to… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
I'm doing a lot of research right now on what's happening in Arizona. That's where I'm at with more conventional documentary filmmaking.… — Lourdes Portillo Copy Share Image
In 1995 I decided to stop eating meat. I could never really quite explain why; I think it was something to do… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
In the documentary space, the biggest and most obvious difference is that in those films you're not in it for a financial… — Julie Smolyansky Copy Share Image
I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I love the 'Housewives.' I don't watch 'American Idol' or 'X Factor.' I guess I don't like network reality: I like my… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
I'm a curious guy. I can't turn away from an investigative story, when it comes to the forensic analysis. I've done 33… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
I was fooled a bit during 'Laguna Beach.' I was 17, 18 years old, and I thought they just wanted to shoot… — Stephen Colletti Copy Share Image
That's what I love about documentary filmmaking, we never know where the story is going, we don't know what is going to… — Gordon Quinn Copy Share Image
There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II.… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
While the documentary community is way ahead of Hollywood, it is still nowhere near where it needs to be. Filmmakers of color… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
“The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
One of the top challenges is the fact that you are dealing with survivors. Every time you deal with a documentary film… — Amy Ziering Copy Share Image
I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a… — Daniel Bruhl Copy Share Image
In a one-hour documentary, you can tell maybe ten stories. That's how the documentary is structured. I wrote to forty of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
When I make a documentary I shoot very little but I hang around with my camera for a long time. I look… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
