Ebb and flow Quote by Jasper Fforde

I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?

— Robert Redford

Despite being a business journalist at the BBC for ten years, working behind the scenes on our high-profile news programmes, I was viewed by…

— Steph McGovern

“If you're an amateur, professional, or aspiring journalist in any city in the U.S., a good story for you would be to dig into…

— Alec Karakatsanis

We've got to make sure we keep the media attention on us; being on telly and in the papers gets people interested.

— Steph Houghton

Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

Police thrillers are so widely read and police dramas so commonplace on television that many people think they have a good understanding of what…

— Daniel Horan

“If everyone knows so much about it, why do they need to make a documentary?”

— Brigid Pasulka

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

“I’ve always been shocked by how many documentary producers and/or directors have a sleazy attitude to ethics. Stick around in this business long enough…

— Martin Belderson

The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.

— Shane Black

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

— Michael Moore

“Cultural copaganda is all around us--from the CIA , starting in the 1950s funding projects like the Iowa Writers' Workshop or fronting literary magazines…

— Alec Karakatsanis