Documentaries Quote by Ed Cunningham

So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.

— Michael Apted

When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you…

— Pamela Yates

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

— Leslie Cockburn

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have…

— Jean-Luc Godard

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 just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

— Daniel Craig

I'm interested in a realization that's hiding beneath the surface, and maybe that's what documentaries can do best, is to try to unpack that…

— Davis Guggenheim

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

— Chris Hegedus

I don't know if I'd mastered that documentary format, but I wanted to move on from it.

— Christopher Guest

Someone said something really interesting the other day they said, "Even documentaries aren't what happened," you know there's a huge jump between life and…

— Bruce Cohen

With documentaries, you go in with an open-mind but knowing what you want.

— Chris Metzler

I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.

— Kevin Macdonald