Documentaries Quote by Errol Morris

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as…

— Errol Morris

I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

— Anna Deavere Smith

I was a documentary film-maker for 26 years before I became a full time actor.

— Suhasini Mulay

I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made…

— Nicholas Meyer

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

— Morgan Neville

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

— Walter Salles

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film…

— Park Chan-wook

I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.

— Robert Barry

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

Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a language, that…

— Mano Khalil

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could…

— Ted Nelson