Documentary Quote by Chris Cubas

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

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

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

How do you documentary a life when real life's getting more like fiction each day

— Sushan Sharma

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

— Leslie Cockburn

I think the beauty of documentary work is that it's a mystery - you never know where it's going to lead you. You start…

— Gail Levin

The making of the documentary is an involving and collaborative process where you go deeper unlike in movies where you just borrow someone else's…

— Javed Jaffrey

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

A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you…

— Jason Katims

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

— Gus Van Sant

I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.

— Kevin Macdonald

I'm interested in a realization that's hiding beneath the surface, and maybe that's what documentaries can do best, is to try to unpack that…

— Davis Guggenheim

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have…

— Jean-Luc Godard