I was brought up in Guildford, and I think I used to absorb all the suburban things - seeing coffee mornings, women… — Julia Davis Copy Share Image
I went on a cross-country trip with three buddies to find out what our generation is about. I bought a video camera,… — Matthew Heineman Copy Share Image
I want to say documentary filmmakers are some of the most conscious media makers, the most empathetic, though sometimes empathy is the… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
The film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth] opens with an Albanian blood feud and goes on to delve into,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
For years my only purpose was to do documentary photos for magazines, without any idea that they were part of a larger… — Hiroshi Hamaya Copy Share Image
I think that documentaries are bound by journalistic ethics, and I think they have the pressure of trying to entertain someone for… — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Copy Share Image
Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
At times doc filmmaking feels more rewarding creatively. Because you are creating something out of pure cinema - instead of narrative cinema,… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism,… — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
In 1993, my first documentary was about the civil war in Algeria. That was in French and in Arabic. Another short film… — Luca Guadagnino Copy Share Image
The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share Image
You have so much more time to observe and learn with a documentary because of the time between the shoots. You get… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Most people look at a feature film and say, "It's just a movie." For me there is no border or wall between… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image