Ability Quote by Leslie Cockburn

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

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 suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.

— Kevin Macdonald

But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the onset -…

— Errol Morris

A documentary film is a great way of helping people understand because, somehow, when one is able to see the people involved, it lends…

— Lawrence Wright

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

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

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

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

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've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if…

— Gus Van Sant

If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as…

— Mark Duplass