Documentaries Quote by Anna Deavere Smith

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as…

— Errol Morris

I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I had trouble…

— Errol Morris

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 would love to direct a documentary film if any good subject comes my way.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a language, that…

— Mano Khalil

Maybe if I found something I was really passionate about, which is entirely possible, I would make another documentary, but it's not a good…

— Terry Zwigoff

I'd like to make documentaries. Way-out documentaries. I'd like to do one on a tour of the U.S.

— Dave Clark

I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but…

— Marc Singer

If I weren't making documentary films, I suppose I'd be teaching.

— Brian Lindstrom

I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I…

— Ryan McGinley

With documentary, you just pick up a camera and start.

— Gaspar Noe

People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in order to…

— Alex Hammond