Entertainment Quote by Michael Portillo

I make documentaries from time to time to remind myself of reality. It's like musicians doing scales to keep their fingers working: when you're…

— Agnes Varda

I make films because I have not learned anything else and I know I can do it to a certain degree. And it is…

— Werner Herzog

I make films to explore concepts and raise questions, not tell the audience what to think.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what…

— Robert Greene

When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd…

— Norman Jewison

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

— Leslie Cockburn

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

— Gene Simmons

I love making documentaries. But I do like other factual entertainment as well, and I like doing the lighter stuff.

— Stacey Dooley

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

— Kevin Macdonald

A lot of my work, the subject is film and television itself, and history, and how that kind of coincides with larger cultural history…

— Martine Syms

The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you…

— Maeve Binchy