Deserve Quote by Joel Edgerton

Stay humble to the craft and never forget how much it actually takes to be the main character of a documentary.

— Nicole Nielsen Horanyi

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

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to…

— Bradley Whitford

Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling.

— Pamela Yates

A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand.

— Chloe Zhao

Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it.

— Ice T

“Why does someone, in the midst of your worst suffering, decide the time has come to drive home, disguised in the form of character…

— Philip Roth

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

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

— Frederick Wiseman

I feel like there's a lot of sympathy and camaraderie among documentary filmmakers.

— Morgan Neville

That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end.

— Thelma Schoonmaker