Cinema Quote by Jamie Bell

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

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

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 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

It's difficult to make movies. For me it was easier, as a refugee in Switzerland, to make documentary films, because I didn't need a…

— Mano Khalil

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

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

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

— Ira Sachs

I've always intended to eventually make films. I've always been very aware of tone and shots. But documentaries are a great proving ground for…

— George Ratliff

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

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

— Leslie Cockburn

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as…

— Errol Morris