Burroughs Quote by Janet Maslin

Someone said something really interesting the other day they said, "Even documentaries aren't what happened," you know there's a huge jump between life and…

— Bruce Cohen

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

— Leslie Cockburn

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

— Oliver Harris

I don't know if I'd mastered that documentary format, but I wanted to move on from it.

— Christopher Guest

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

People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in order to…

— Alex Hammond

Brilliant documentaries are about so much more than their subject.

— Gemma Whelan

I love documentaries. I love the format. I've been doing them for a long time.

— Morgan Neville

You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has…

— Imogen Cunningham

I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures.

— Morgan Neville

It's hard to make a living doing documentaries. Frankly, if it takes you five years to do a film, and that's the only film…

— Alex Gibney

I love documentary because it's alive.

— Josh Fox