Character Quote by Nicole Nielsen Horanyi

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

— Leslie Cockburn

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads…

— William Shatner

The nice thing about a documentary, I think, is that so much of it is editing, too. You sort of get to keep making…

— Gillian Jacobs

Like theatre, crafting a documentary film takes tremendous commitment, patience and passion.

— Dori Berinstein

People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in order to…

— Alex Hammond

Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling.

— Pamela Yates

One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it…

— Brian Lindstrom

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

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures.

— Morgan Neville

A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand.

— Chloe Zhao

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 love documentaries. My problem is when the filmmaker becomes the star.

— Christopher Guest