Digital Quote by Lloyd Kaufman

I loved watching documentaries and had wanted to try making one for years - I'd just put it off as other opportunities arose. But…

— Marshall Curry

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

— Leslie Cockburn

With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean…

— Lucy Walker

With documentary, you just pick up a camera and start.

— Gaspar Noe

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

Even back in the '90s, I shot certain things on something that wasn't digital then, but it was on VHS with a smaller camera…

— Barry Levinson

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

— Anna Deavere Smith

I never say I make documentaries. I say I make television.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

Every time you are getting ready to make a shot in a documentary film, you are asking yourself questions about your cinematographic approach. You…

— Rithy Panh

In some ways, making documentaries is like being a journalist. You interview people and then use the bits you want to use as opposed…

— Kevin Macdonald

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

— Lasse Hallstrom