Cannot Quote by Elie Wiesel

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad…

— Abbas Kiarostami

At times doc filmmaking feels more rewarding creatively. Because you are creating something out of pure cinema - instead of narrative cinema, where you've…

— George Hickenlooper

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

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I just like documentaries.

— Lukasz Fabianski

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 like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming…

— Steven Yeun

I love documentaries. I love the format. I've been doing them for a long time.

— Morgan Neville

In documentary, you are sometimes burdened, or you feel very responsible for dealing with - I want to say - more complicated themes. Fiction…

— Debra Granik

'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.

— Grant Heslov

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

— Gaspar Noe

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