Day life Quote by Debra Granik

The nice thing about a documentary, I think, is that so much of it is editing, too. You sort of get to keep making…

— Gillian Jacobs

But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the onset -…

— Errol Morris

It's always important to understand as filmmakers that we're not making a documentary and it has to look good. It has to entertain, because…

— Michelle Yeoh

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads…

— William Shatner

People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in order to…

— Alex Hammond

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

That's what I love about documentary filmmaking, we never know where the story is going, we don't know what is going to happen next,…

— Gordon Quinn

Documentaries sometimes can be shot over 10 years. You plan to stop in two, but you still gotta catch more.

— Gza

It's hard to make a living doing documentaries. Frankly, if it takes you five years to do a film, and that's the only film…

— Alex Gibney

The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's…

— Frank Gohlke

A lot of documentaries have been made very quickly, but I think they're like frogs in an ecosystem: They're harbingers. Film is always two…

— Alexander Payne

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

— Lauren Greenfield