Believe Quote by David Shapiro

I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishing that the reality I…

— Ruth Ozeki

I think what happens normally in a narrative film is that the camera constructs the reality.

— Sam Seder

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

— Norman Jewison

I am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it affect people…

— Wayne White

I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.

— Jean Renoir

Film is carrying a lot of ideology. It's carrying an image. It's forging an image not only of the rest of the world, but…

— Raoul Peck

My films are a reflection of the society I live in, what I see and observe.

— Vetrimaaran

Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror,…

— Allan Sekula

In a drama, the camera doesn't exist. In a documentary, it does.

— Gareth Edwards

Narrative cinema is just an imitation of life. Why would you prevent yourself and the audience of the same images, of the same that…

— Gaspar Noe

Every time you are getting ready to make a shot in a documentary film, you are asking yourself questions about your cinematographic approach. You…

— Rithy Panh

As soon as anybody puts anything on film, it automatically has a point of view, and it's somebody else's point of view, and it's…

— Crispin Glover