Cinema Quote by Pamela Yates

You also convert real memories, whatever that means, into film versions of those memories. Because by the time you've finished the project you can't…

— Guy Maddin

You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens.

— Ed Cunningham

I have made more documentaries in my time than I think I care to remember, though I am immensely proud of all my work.

— Charles Guggenheim

The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I tend to believe that film can try to save what still can be saved, in terms of our histories, our memories. Because a…

— Raoul Peck

I think it is very important that films make people remember what they have forgotten.

— Spike Lee

I believe, you know, as history unfolds, certain films will disappear, and certain ones will stand the test of time. And you never know…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary film was.

— Tony Kaye

But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about…

— Errol Morris

With filmmaking in general, I have never absorbed the traditional knowledge of film history or filmmaking. It has always been just pick up the…

— Dave McCary

People sometimes forget all the films that we've done. They remember the likes of 'Malcolm X' and 'Do the Right Thing.' But I've been…

— Spike Lee

I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my…

— Otto Preminger