Documentary Quote by Pamela Adlon

I began filmmaking in high school, at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. My first documentary was about a dysfunctional obese middle-aged carpet cleaner…

— Yony Leyser

I had my own documentary that I filmed in D.C., which is where I'm from.

— Lexi Underwood

There was a time when I first started when I made a fake press pass and borrowed a camera and headed into wars, and…

— Anderson Cooper

Right at the beginning of my career, I did a couple of short films which were based on a social cause.

— Arjun Mathur

Making a documentary about my hometown was always going to be the most difficult topic I had ever covered! No question.

— Stacey Dooley

I did a few documentaries as co-director and cameraman. I started off shooting a film about the war in Rhodesia. Then I did a…

— Roger Deakins

My brother made a whole documentary of my life. It's a long story.

— DeSean Jackson

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

— Walter Salles

Everyone started to have a camera. That's when I started to travel outside of New York and go into nature.

— Ryan McGinley

I first started making films - this is my first feature, but I was making shorts - I was actually freelancing as a day…

— Richard Press

An experience that shaped me happened early in my TV career when I filmed in Mozambique, Angola and Bangladesh for 'Blue Peter' and Comic…

— Konnie Huq

I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes.

— Judy Dater