Became Quote by Errol Morris

Before I published my first book, I worked for a while as a documentary and wedding/bar mitzvah videographer, and a part of me still…

— Stefan Merrill Block

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries…

— Michael Apted

I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I had trouble…

— Errol Morris

I loved watching documentaries and had wanted to try making one for years - I'd just put it off as other opportunities arose. But…

— Marshall Curry

You make documentaries because you love doing it; it's the only sane reason to make documentaries.

— Morgan Neville

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

— Walter Salles

The main reason why I'm a documentary filmmaker is the power of the medium. The most powerful films I've seen have been documentaries. Of…

— Richard Ray Perez

Another reason I did not make films is that I liked being unemployed, since that is when I read, study and write.

— Gulzar

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

— Morgan Neville

The biggest misconception is that I'm only a documentary filmmaker, but in fact I have made many narrative shorts. My biggest inspirations are narrative…

— Alex Hammond

One of the reasons - I stopped doing films for about a year and a half because I felt that I was being somewhat…

— Luke Goss

As for documentary, it was a natural progression from my earlier career in journalism. The two media are connected, but of course making films…

— Nancy Kates