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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

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

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

— Chris Hegedus

The trend for documentaries will never go away, because everybody wants to learn about the world. The world is awful in parts, but there's…

— Daisy Ridley

You know so many documentaries now are very carefully scripted before you start, and then people are sort of put in chairs which are…

— Nick Broomfield

Non-fiction or documentaries can tell any kind of a story because they don't have to adhere to the rules of what's possible. When you're…

— Morgan Neville

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 never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fiction…

— John Hyams

Someone said something really interesting the other day they said, "Even documentaries aren't what happened," you know there's a huge jump between life and…

— Bruce Cohen

Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged -…

— Olivia Wilde

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that…

— Ava DuVernay