Complicated Quote by Debra Granik

I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what…

— Robert Greene

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with…

— Jonathan Demme

When I think about the new film, I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the…

— Robert Greene

I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in…

— Jamie Johnson

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad…

— Abbas Kiarostami

We exaggerate the difference between documentary and fiction. I think that on some level a fiction film is also a documentary on the actors.…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

— Gaspar Noe

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have…

— Jean-Luc Godard

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

— Kevin Macdonald

My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly…

— Brett Morgen

The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me. Documentaries are…

— Richard Ray Perez

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

— Philip Seymour Hoffman