Hours Quote by Bruce Cohen

This whole business of documentary being a second-class citizen is bullshit. A documentary can be as interesting, as dramatic, as sad, as funny, blah,…

— Frederick Wiseman

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

Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the…

— Jonathan Demme

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

I'm not somebody who comes in with a whole outline, and says, "Here's the movie we're going to make." That's not what a documentary…

— Morgan Spurlock

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

A lot of documentaries are about something that already happened, but I think people are kind of afraid to let the story find them.…

— John Wilson

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

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

It's hard to make a living doing documentaries. Frankly, if it takes you five years to do a film, and that's the only film…

— Alex Gibney

Brilliant documentaries are about so much more than their subject.

— Gemma Whelan

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

— Chris Hegedus