Asking Quote by Paul Allen

Solutions require action, and one of the things I love most about documentary filmmaking is that it allows for the creation of powerful impact…

— Beth Murphy

Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by…

— Martha Rosler

I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?

— Robert Redford

Documentary film is the one place that our people can speak for themselves. I feel that the documentaries that I've been working on have…

— Alanis Obomsawin

Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged -…

— Olivia Wilde

I think the only thing filmmakers can do is try to make good movies and make them as long as they allow us to…

— Robert Zemeckis

The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things;…

— Bruce Jackson

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

— Naomi Wolf

I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to…

— Dennis Muren

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

I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if…

— Gus Van Sant

Maybe every two films you need to do documentary to tell what you really want to tell and not be limited by the medium.…

— Fatih Ak?n