Documentary Quote by Christopher Guest

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

— Leslie Cockburn

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

— Kevin Macdonald

I love documentaries. I love the format. I've been doing them for a long time.

— Morgan Neville

Maybe if I found something I was really passionate about, which is entirely possible, I would make another documentary, but it's not a good…

— Terry Zwigoff

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

— Anna Deavere Smith

I loved watching documentaries and had wanted to try making one for years - I'd just put it off as other opportunities arose. But…

— Marshall Curry

I've had frustrated storytelling juices that have been lying dormant for a long time, and I guess the documentary was a way of me…

— Eric Bana

Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.

— Gus Van Sant

With documentary, you just pick up a camera and start.

— Gaspar Noe

I think what I love about the documentary process is that you bring yourself to the documentary. And hopefully that makes you ask good…

— Soledad O'Brien

I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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