Documentaries Quote by Jonathan Demme

In documentary, you are sometimes burdened, or you feel very responsible for dealing with - I want to say - more complicated themes. Fiction…

— Debra Granik

That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better…

— Walter Salles

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

— Robert J. Sawyer

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have…

— Jean-Luc Godard

I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in…

— Jamie Johnson

Most fiction comes from your experience.

— Susan Minot

I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.

— Kevin Macdonald

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a…

— Jonathan Demme

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

— Gaspar Noe

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

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what…

— Robert Greene

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess