Art Quote by Debra Granik

Documentary films have always been my passion, I have done documentaries.

— Shoojit Sircar

I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures.

— Morgan Neville

I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

How do you documentary a life when real life's getting more like fiction each day

— Sushan Sharma

I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form…

— Barry Levinson

I have always felt that documentaries are an opportunity for me to witness a world that I know nothing about.

— Chris Hegedus

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

— Walter Salles

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

— Frank Marshall

I think, as most people are, I'm fascinated with love, relationships, and my daily life so I'm very inclined to make films about those…

— Mark Webber

Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.

— Gus Van Sant

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

— Griffin Dunne

I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I…

— Ryan McGinley