Documentary Quote by Max Joseph

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

— Alec Soth

In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a…

— Garth Stein

Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller.

— Abbas Kiarostami

At the core, I'm a filmmaker and a storyteller.

— John Schneider

My first narrative films developed out of a documentary process - finding someone who was willing to be filmed, watching, listening, taking copious notes…

— Debra Granik

Like theatre, crafting a documentary film takes tremendous commitment, patience and passion.

— Dori Berinstein

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

— Lauren Greenfield

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

— Peter Greenaway

As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.

— Hany Abu-Assad

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

— Lucy Walker

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

— Michael Moore

I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.

— Kevin Macdonald