Confronted Quote by Jean-Pierre Dardenne

When you make a documentary, you have to adapt to what reality imposes upon you.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a narrative in…

— Mira Nair

I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishing that the reality I…

— Ruth Ozeki

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

— Mike Mills

I make documentaries from time to time to remind myself of reality. It's like musicians doing scales to keep their fingers working: when you're…

— Agnes Varda

I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if…

— Gus Van Sant

Oftentimes, reality is much worse than what you can put in a movie.

— Susanne Bier

As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.

— Hany Abu-Assad

Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.

— Adam Curtis

I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality.

— Ingmar Bergman

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

When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.

— Mario Van Peebles