Chronicles Quote by Ava DuVernay

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

People who make documentaries have to be faithful to the facts. But when you are making a drama, a fiction based on the life,…

— Milos Forman

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

— Gaspar Noe

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

— Tim Hetherington

Stories, as we're taught in journalism school early on, are told through people. Those stories make our documentaries powerful. You can explore someone's culture,…

— Soledad O'Brien

Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

Maybe every two films you need to do documentary to tell what you really want to tell and not be limited by the medium.…

— Fatih Ak?n

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

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to…

— Bradley Whitford

I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction. If you acknowledge that filming…

— Joshua Oppenheimer

Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual…

— Joe Berlinger

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

— Michael Moore