Attention Quote by Amy Ziering

I think the biggest challenge was being aware of a certain audience that was going to see this film [lone survivor]. There's a big…

— Peter Berg

Solutions require action, and one of the things I love most about documentary filmmaking is that it allows for the creation of powerful impact…

— Beth Murphy

I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done…

— Jared Harris

It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides…

— Sharon Salzberg

Documentary filmmaking has all the challenges and hardships of narrative filmmaking without any of the infrastructure or support. That's both a blessing and a…

— Brian Lindstrom

Documentary film is the one place that our people can speak for themselves. I feel that the documentaries that I've been working on have…

— Alanis Obomsawin

I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always…

— Barbara Kopple

With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself -…

— Paul Allen

One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it…

— Brian Lindstrom

There are many documentary filmmakers who have a tough time because they don't really get what they need to do what they want. There…

— Max von Sydow

It's difficult to make movies. For me it was easier, as a refugee in Switzerland, to make documentary films, because I didn't need a…

— Mano Khalil

Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling.

— Pamela Yates