Always believe Quote by Darius Khondji

I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction. If you acknowledge that filming…

— Joshua Oppenheimer

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

— Mike Mills

Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of…

— Ruth Ozeki

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a…

— Jonathan Demme

Most people look at a feature film and say, "It's just a movie." For me there is no border or wall between fiction and…

— Mano Khalil

Documentaries are inherently instinctual; you're constantly moment to moment, determining what the best place for the camera is to tell the story, usually in…

— Rachel Morrison

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

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

In a fiction film, we know at some level we've suspended disbelief. In a documentary, we know that we're watching a drama unfold in…

— Joshua Oppenheimer

It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.

— Werner Herzog

With fiction, you are creating an imaginary world. And it can be a very mechanical process. In a fictional film, you create the characters…

— Mano Khalil

...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of a scene.…

— Beat Streuli