Cinema Quote by Lawrence Wright

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

I'm not somebody who comes in with a whole outline, and says, "Here's the movie we're going to make." That's not what a documentary…

— Morgan Spurlock

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

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

— Leslie Cockburn

You know so many documentaries now are very carefully scripted before you start, and then people are sort of put in chairs which are…

— Nick Broomfield

The nice thing about a documentary, I think, is that so much of it is editing, too. You sort of get to keep making…

— Gillian Jacobs

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

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

If you're able to appeal to a broader market, you can make an entertaining narrative film. Whereas a documentary is something that only a…

— Nick Searcy

A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film…

— Cate Blanchett

Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by…

— Martha Rosler

Maybe every two films you need to do documentary to tell what you really want to tell and not be limited by the medium.…

— Fatih Ak?n