Cinema Quote by John Hyams

I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form…

— Barry Levinson

My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly…

— Brett Morgen

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

— Walter Salles

The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found…

— Ava DuVernay

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries…

— Michael Apted

I have always felt that documentaries are an opportunity for me to witness a world that I know nothing about.

— Chris Hegedus

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have…

— Werner Herzog

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

— Griffin Dunne

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

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the onset -…

— Errol Morris

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as…

— Errol Morris

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