Documentaries Quote by Morgan Neville

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

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.

— Kevin Macdonald

You make documentaries because you love doing it; it's the only sane reason to make documentaries.

— Morgan Neville

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries…

— Michael Apted

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 loved watching documentaries and had wanted to try making one for years - I'd just put it off as other opportunities arose. But…

— Marshall Curry

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

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

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

— Leslie Cockburn

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

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

If I could make a decent living doing documentaries, I would. I don't really care about [the other] stuff so much. But you can't…

— Penelope Spheeris

Even though I make documentaries, everyone's acting in a way. Really. And you're creating, and you're confabulating things. You can't relive reality, you can…

— Lourdes Portillo