Cinema Quote by Adrian Grenier

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that…

— Ava DuVernay

In documentary, you are sometimes burdened, or you feel very responsible for dealing with - I want to say - more complicated themes. Fiction…

— Debra Granik

[W]hen you're shooting a doc, you're trying to class it up because you can. You know, you're trying to make this feel like cinematic…

— John Hyams

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

— Gaspar Noe

I think what happens normally in a narrative film is that the camera constructs the reality.

— Sam Seder

In documentaries, you're confronted with reality; you can not manipulate or move it.

— Jean-Pierre Dardenne

At times doc filmmaking feels more rewarding creatively. Because you are creating something out of pure cinema - instead of narrative cinema, where you've…

— George Hickenlooper

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with…

— Jonathan Demme

Docs are more exhausting because of the physical labor that's required. Feature filmmaking is more exhausting because of politics and the bullshit. You get…

— George Hickenlooper

When you make a documentary, you have to adapt to what reality imposes upon you.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

— Joanna Scott

I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what…

— Robert Greene