Arena Quote by Chelsea Handler

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 never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fiction…

— John Hyams

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

— Chris Hegedus

I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures.

— Morgan Neville

The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found…

— Ava DuVernay

I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form…

— Barry Levinson

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

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

— Frank Marshall

My obsession with documentary coincided with this job I had where I worked for a private investigator for about a year after graduating. I…

— John Wilson

I've always slightly harboured a dream of making a film, a documentary feature. Somehow I just got into a way of working a routine…

— Louis Theroux

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

My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly…

— Brett Morgen