Culture Quote by Gordon Quinn

But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the onset -…

— Errol Morris

Documentaries are unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to people, a…

— Cosima Spender

This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding…

— Ben Edwards

In a fiction film, we know at some level we've suspended disbelief. In a documentary, we know that we're watching a drama unfold in…

— Joshua Oppenheimer

If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as…

— Mark Duplass

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie…

— Jose Padilha

I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction. If you acknowledge that filming…

— Joshua Oppenheimer

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

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads…

— William Shatner

There are days when either filmmaking feels like an insurmountable practice - here's a lot of obstacles in the way to make it happen…

— Debra Granik

Documentary film is the one place that our people can speak for themselves. I feel that the documentaries that I've been working on have…

— Alanis Obomsawin

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that…

— Ava DuVernay