Corporate Quote by Jonathan Demme

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

— Michael Moore

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 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

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

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

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

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

There's a lot of documentaries out in the world; it sometimes seems as if there's no topic left!

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

With newspapers cutting foreign bureaus and budgets shrinking for long-form, investigative journalism, documentary filmmakers are often filling a void nowadays in the media landscape…

— Matthew Heineman

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

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

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

— Tim Hetherington