Addition Quote by Frederick Wiseman

Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not…

— Berenice Abbott

The trend for documentaries will never go away, because everybody wants to learn about the world. The world is awful in parts, but there's…

— Daisy Ridley

I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Pictures that will live on for years, like 'The Birth of a Nation' and 'Gone With the Wind,' had great historical events in the…

— William Wyler

How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?

— Martha Rosler

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

— Catherine Opie

If I could make a decent living doing documentaries, I would. I don't really care about [the other] stuff so much. But you can't…

— Penelope Spheeris

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

— Werner Herzog

I have made more documentaries in my time than I think I care to remember, though I am immensely proud of all my work.

— Charles Guggenheim

I would like to do more documentaries.

— Zara McDermott

Above all, documentary must reflect the problems and realities of the present. It cannot regret the past; it is dangerous to prophesy the future.…

— Paul Rotha

...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of a scene.…

— Beat Streuli