Documentaries Quote by Jean-Luc Godard

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

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I much prefer films based on fact rather than fictional stories.

— Graeme Souness

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

Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.

— Nell Freudenberger

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

— John McGahern

Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of…

— Ruth Ozeki

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

— Gaspar Noe

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

— Debra Granik

I'm a big fan of non-fiction, and I am a believer that fact is much more exciting than fiction.

— Rob Van Dam

I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in…

— Jamie Johnson

There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.

— Howard Jacobson