Cinema Quote by Debra Granik

Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

— Barbara Kopple

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

— Griffin Dunne

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

— Walter Salles

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

Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller.

— Abbas Kiarostami

My job is to find the stories, find where to go, do the research, do the logistics, be there on location, and do as…

— Greg MacGillivray

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

— Ira Sachs

In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a…

— Garth Stein

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as…

— Errol Morris

The biggest misconception is that I'm only a documentary filmmaker, but in fact I have made many narrative shorts. My biggest inspirations are narrative…

— Alex Hammond

As a film-maker, I enjoy telling stories, and every film has its own journey.

— Dileesh Pothan

I make films about stories that I get interested in.

— Anubhav Sinha