Fun Quote by Michael Portillo

Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it.

— Ice T

I think that documentaries are bound by journalistic ethics, and I think they have the pressure of trying to entertain someone for 90 minutes.…

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

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

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.

— Kevin Macdonald

I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

This politics is bound to be reflected in the work of a serious filmmaker. When I make a film, I try to tell a…

— Aparna Sen

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

When you come to documentaries, the stakes are too low for it to be cutthroat. You're all doing it for the right reasons.

— Morgan Neville

When you make a documentary, you have to adapt to what reality imposes upon you.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

If you're not doing it for the right reasons, then you'd be dumb to be making documentaries.

— Morgan Neville

It's hard to make a living doing documentaries. Frankly, if it takes you five years to do a film, and that's the only film…

— Alex Gibney

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

— Mathieu Kassovitz