Cinema Quote by George Ratliff

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

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

Yeah, I think any type of filmmaking is good as an on-ramp to making films. But I will say that documentary filmmakers have a…

— RaMell Ross

The nice thing about a documentary, I think, is that so much of it is editing, too. You sort of get to keep making…

— Gillian Jacobs

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

— Jamie Bell

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

— Frank Marshall

Documentary films have always been my passion, I have done documentaries.

— Shoojit Sircar

I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form…

— Barry Levinson

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

— Ira Sachs

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

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

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

— Griffin Dunne