Cutting Quote by Betty Dodson

Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through layers of…

— Taryn Simon

A lot of documentaries are biased - they leave out a lot of information.

— Tim Pool

When you come to documentaries, the stakes are too low for it to be cutthroat. You're all doing it for the right reasons.

— Morgan Neville

I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.

— Maria Thayer

What I know is that I am honest about my films, and my films are honest about reality. The stories themselves dictate the way…

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that…

— Ava DuVernay

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

With documentaries, you go in with an open-mind but knowing what you want.

— Chris Metzler

Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex - not in my personal…

— Gad Elmaleh

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

There's nothing attractive about doing a documentary. Nothing. It's hard, hard work, and I find having all the attention of the day on me…

— Elaine Stritch

But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the onset -…

— Errol Morris