Documentaries Quote by Cosima Spender

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

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that…

— Ava DuVernay

Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

— Gaspar Noe

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

— Chris Hegedus

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 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

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

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

Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.

— Adam Curtis

You see reality TV and it's not reality TV. It's contrived and everything is plotted and scripted nearly. Documentaries are the same and just…

— Ricky Gervais

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

— Michael Moore