Audience Quote by Bradley Whitford

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

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

The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to make choices…

— Mark Rydell

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

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

If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as…

— Mark Duplass

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

That's what I love about documentary filmmaking, we never know where the story is going, we don't know what is going to happen next,…

— Gordon Quinn

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

In a fiction film, we know at some level we've suspended disbelief. In a documentary, we know that we're watching a drama unfold in…

— Joshua Oppenheimer

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

— Hirokazu Kore-eda