Afghanistan Quote by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Professionally, I made my first film at 20 in a war zone in Kosovo.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Being in a worldwide documentary is not something you grow up thinking is going to happen to you, to be honest with you.

— Paul Mullin

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

— Chris Hegedus

I did a few documentaries as co-director and cameraman. I started off shooting a film about the war in Rhodesia. Then I did a…

— Roger Deakins

I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist.

— Hark-Joon Lee

I have always taken risks. I like doing films which are different.

— Rajkummar Rao

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

— Walter Salles

Documentaries were necessary for my growth as a person. I grew up very sheltered and it was a form of expressing myself.

— Kareem Mortimer

You weren’t in any real danger. We knew exactly where you were all the time.

— Anthony Horowitz

I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures.

— Morgan Neville

I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

— Naomi Wolf