Ability Quote by Mark Duplass

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

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

— Gaspar Noe

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

— Leslie Cockburn

Documentary filmmaking has all the challenges and hardships of narrative filmmaking without any of the infrastructure or support. That's both a blessing and a…

— Brian Lindstrom

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

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

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

My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly…

— Brett Morgen

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

Documentaries are unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to people, a…

— Cosima Spender

The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me. Documentaries are…

— Richard Ray Perez