Cases Quote by Jamie Johnson

In documentary, you are sometimes burdened, or you feel very responsible for dealing with - I want to say - more complicated themes. Fiction…

— Debra Granik

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with…

— Jonathan Demme

The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's no interview…

— Sylvie Simmons

We exaggerate the difference between documentary and fiction. I think that on some level a fiction film is also a documentary on the actors.…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.

— Kevin Macdonald

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

— Joan Didion

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have…

— Jean-Luc Godard

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I made up my mind that I will do fiction in films and non-fiction in TV.

— Javed Jaffrey

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you…

— Megan McCafferty

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

— Erica Jong