Came Quote by Mira Nair

I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishing that the reality I…

— Ruth Ozeki

In documentaries, you're confronted with reality; you can not manipulate or move it.

— Jean-Pierre Dardenne

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

— Hany Abu-Assad

Making a movie is trying to capture moments of true reality.

— Juan Diego Solanas

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

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

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 had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into…

— Satyajit Ray

For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted…

— Mira Nair

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that…

— Ava DuVernay

Narrative cinema is just an imitation of life. Why would you prevent yourself and the audience of the same images, of the same that…

— Gaspar Noe

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

— Stanley Kubrick

When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their memories or…

— Milos Forman