Listening Quote by Agnes Varda

I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if…

— Gus Van Sant

Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged -…

— Olivia Wilde

I have always felt that documentaries are an opportunity for me to witness a world that I know nothing about.

— Chris Hegedus

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

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form…

— Barry Levinson

Documentaries are unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to people, a…

— Cosima Spender

Even though I make documentaries, everyone's acting in a way. Really. And you're creating, and you're confabulating things. You can't relive reality, you can…

— Lourdes Portillo

Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.

— Adam Curtis

I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.

— Kevin Macdonald

I never say I make documentaries. I say I make television.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

My obsession with documentary coincided with this job I had where I worked for a private investigator for about a year after graduating. I…

— John Wilson

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries…

— Michael Apted