Always Quote by Dennis Muren

I found a lot of stuff that's never been seen before. That was the goal: to not use cliché Cold War footage but give…

— Gabe Polsky

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

— Chris Hegedus

With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean…

— Lucy Walker

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

With documentary, you just pick up a camera and start.

— Gaspar Noe

I loved watching documentaries and had wanted to try making one for years - I'd just put it off as other opportunities arose. But…

— Marshall Curry

Documentary film is the one place that our people can speak for themselves. I feel that the documentaries that I've been working on have…

— Alanis Obomsawin

I make documentaries from time to time to remind myself of reality. It's like musicians doing scales to keep their fingers working: when you're…

— Agnes Varda

There was a time when I first started when I made a fake press pass and borrowed a camera and headed into wars, and…

— Anderson Cooper

I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding the images…

— Benjamin Avila

You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a script, a…

— Thom Powers

I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if…

— Gus Van Sant