Documentaries Quote by Errol Morris

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

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 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

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

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

— Anna Deavere Smith

What's great about documentary genre, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot…

— Errol Morris

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

— Lucy Walker

I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.

— Simon Beaufoy

I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this…

— Al Pacino

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

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

Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

— Barbara Kopple