Character Quote by Andreas Koefoed

The nice thing about a documentary, I think, is that so much of it is editing, too. You sort of get to keep making…

— Gillian Jacobs

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads…

— William Shatner

What's great about documentary genre, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot…

— Errol Morris

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

— Leslie Cockburn

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

The way I sort of approach my work is that the historical and socioeconomic and cultural worlds that the music is exploring dictate the…

— Todd Haynes

I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the…

— Spike Jonze

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

— Gus Van Sant

I make documentaries from time to time to remind myself of reality. It's like musicians doing scales to keep their fingers working: when you're…

— Agnes Varda

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

I'm a massive sucker for music documentaries.

— Stephen Mangan

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