Cinema Quote by Frederick Wiseman

When you make a documentary, you have to adapt to what reality imposes upon you.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

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

— Morgan Neville

As a documentary filmmaker, I try to be sensitive to my subjects.

— Keith Maitland

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

When you're making a real documentary, you shoot it and the movie happens. You don't make - this sounds corny - you don't make…

— Chris Rock

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

— Jamie Bell

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

— Morgan Neville

Thhe essence of documentary filmmaking is how you manipulate the material to create an emotional impact, as opposed to just delivering information.

— Richard Ray Perez

The magic of documentary is that I keep being surprised and amazed by the things I film.

— Kim Longinotto

For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.

— Ira Sachs

Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling.

— Pamela Yates

I make documentaries from time to time to remind myself of reality. It's like musicians doing scales to keep their fingers working: when you're…

— Agnes Varda