Always Quote by Diego Luna

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

— Griffin Dunne

Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a language, that…

— Mano Khalil

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

— Werner Herzog

Documentaries are unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to people, a…

— Cosima Spender

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

It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.

— Werner Herzog

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

I think I'm still trying to find my voice as a filmmaker and finding stories to tell.

— Katie Aselton

The documentaries are one thing - I was highlighting someone else's work, someone else's genius. Once I had to find my own voice, I'm…

— Robert B. Weide

Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged -…

— Olivia Wilde

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

— Michael Moore

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have…

— Werner Herzog