Documentary Quote by Kevin Macdonald

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

When you make a documentary, you have to adapt to what reality imposes upon you.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

In some ways, the documentary form is a kind of trap and so is societal norms.

— Robert Greene

I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.

— Michael Rapaport

I have learned that documentary makers are incredibly sneaky people.

— Anna Wintour

I think that documentaries are bound by journalistic ethics, and I think they have the pressure of trying to entertain someone for 90 minutes.…

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in order to…

— Alex Hammond

If you're not doing it for the right reasons, then you'd be dumb to be making documentaries.

— Morgan Neville

Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it.

— Ice T

People who make documentaries have to be faithful to the facts. But when you are making a drama, a fiction based on the life,…

— Milos Forman

We make movies to endorse our own personal feelings. I am not, in fact, a documentary filmmaker. I've got my personal beliefs, and I'm…

— Rod Lurie

When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd…

— Norman Jewison