Cinema Quote by Bruce Jackson

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

Especially when you talk about the power of documentary filmmaking, you can't really have a slant; financially, you can't have a slant on the…

— Amy J. Berg

Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by…

— Martha Rosler

This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding…

— Ben Edwards

With newspapers cutting foreign bureaus and budgets shrinking for long-form, investigative journalism, documentary filmmakers are often filling a void nowadays in the media landscape…

— Matthew Heineman

Every time you are getting ready to make a shot in a documentary film, you are asking yourself questions about your cinematographic approach. You…

— Rithy Panh

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

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

— Naomi Wolf

Thhe essence of documentary filmmaking is how you manipulate the material to create an emotional impact, as opposed to just delivering information.

— Richard Ray Perez

For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.

— Ira Sachs

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

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

The nice thing about a documentary, I think, is that so much of it is editing, too. You sort of get to keep making…

— Gillian Jacobs