Documentaries Quote by Bela Fleck

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

— Leslie Cockburn

I think what I love about the documentary process is that you bring yourself to the documentary. And hopefully that makes you ask good…

— Soledad O'Brien

I like a really good documentary where I can learn something.

— Michaela Strachan

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

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

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

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

I can do a documentary on myself, and it would be, like, 10 minutes.

— John Corabi

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'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.

— Simon Beaufoy

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

— Chris Hegedus

I always wanted to be in movies, but I never thought that in a million years there would be a documentary about my life.

— Gigi Gorgeous

Making a documentary on an issue that is not the easiest to have those conversations with people around you is something that I want…

— Zara McDermott