Documentary Quote by Debra Granik

Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a language, that…

— Mano Khalil

Of course, when you're making a documentary, you don't have actors, but nonetheless, there is a writing process that does take place in the…

— Rithy Panh

Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes.

— Harvey Weinstein

With films, I just scribble a couple of notes for a scene. You don't have to do any writing at all, you just have…

— Woody Allen

But I don't think as film-makers it is our responsibility that every time we make a film we should be saying something. If you…

— Rajkumar Hirani

I don't like to talk about messages so much with films simply because it's a little more didactic. The reason I'm a filmmaker is…

— Jonathan Nolan

When you make feature films, you have a script, which is a bible. The final result should be as it was written down on…

— Danis Tanovic

When you make a film, you come to say something.

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries…

— Michael Apted

I like to make movies the way people made movies in the '70s, where they lived and died with these stories, and cared about…

— Judd Apatow

Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.

— Hideo Kojima

My movies are personal notes of my whole life.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali