Able Quote by Hirokazu Koreeda

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

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have…

— Werner Herzog

I don't think there's so much difference between making documentaries and feature films. I think it's even harder to make documentaries.

— Danis Tanovic

We do documentaries on the history of cinema in between our feature films.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

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

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

It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.

— Werner Herzog

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

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

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

— Michael Moore

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

I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fiction…

— John Hyams