Believe Quote by Mike Mills

Documentary is reality. It shows the truth.

— Jackie Shroff

The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to make choices…

— Mark Rydell

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

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a…

— Jonathan Demme

Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries.

— Pirjo Honkasalo

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad…

— Abbas Kiarostami

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have…

— Jean-Luc Godard

Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.

— Adam Curtis

It's the angle that shows how we see differently. I have always believed that all documentaries are fictional. It's really the angle of the…

— Darius Khondji

You see reality TV and it's not reality TV. It's contrived and everything is plotted and scripted nearly. Documentaries are the same and just…

— Ricky Gervais

This whole business of documentary being a second-class citizen is bullshit. A documentary can be as interesting, as dramatic, as sad, as funny, blah,…

— Frederick Wiseman