Documentaries Quote by Gus Van Sant

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

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

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual…

— Joe Berlinger

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

Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged -…

— Olivia Wilde

Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.

— Adam Curtis

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

— Leslie Cockburn

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

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

Most people look at a feature film and say, "It's just a movie." For me there is no border or wall between fiction and…

— Mano Khalil

Many people have this memory of traditional TV documentary-making that aims to portray pure reality, and I just don't see that as the only…

— Alex Gibney

I'm not somebody who comes in with a whole outline, and says, "Here's the movie we're going to make." That's not what a documentary…

— Morgan Spurlock