Growth Quote by Kareem Mortimer

My time in documentaries was very educating, in terms of life experience as well as the filmmaking side of it.

— Roger Deakins

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

— Walter Salles

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

— Chris Hegedus

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 think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that…

— Steven Spielberg

Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror,…

— Allan Sekula

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

My obsession with documentary coincided with this job I had where I worked for a private investigator for about a year after graduating. I…

— John Wilson

Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a language, that…

— Mano Khalil