Documentaries Quote by Eric Bana

If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as…

— Mark Duplass

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

— Griffin Dunne

My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly…

— Brett Morgen

I'm a lover of film and storytelling. I believe that I was put on earth to tell stories, and I'm not interested in telling…

— Justin Simien

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

— Leslie Cockburn

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And…

— Edward Zwick

The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me. Documentaries are…

— Richard Ray Perez

Documentary filmmaking has all the challenges and hardships of narrative filmmaking without any of the infrastructure or support. That's both a blessing and a…

— Brian Lindstrom

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

— Christopher Guest

The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found…

— Ava DuVernay

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

— Gaspar Noe

I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fiction…

— John Hyams