Every day Quote by John Wilson

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

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 loved watching documentaries and had wanted to try making one for years - I'd just put it off as other opportunities arose. But…

— Marshall Curry

Maybe if I found something I was really passionate about, which is entirely possible, I would make another documentary, but it's not a good…

— Terry Zwigoff

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

— Leslie Cockburn

If I could make a decent living doing documentaries, I would. I don't really care about [the other] stuff so much. But you can't…

— Penelope Spheeris

Documentary film is the one place that our people can speak for themselves. I feel that the documentaries that I've been working on have…

— Alanis Obomsawin

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

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

— Chris Hegedus

I do really enjoy watching documentaries because it's such an interesting foray into other people's lives.

— Ego Nwodim

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

— Frank Marshall

What's great about documentary genre, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot…

— Errol Morris