Documentary Quote by Paul Mullin

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

Documentaries are unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to people, a…

— Cosima Spender

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

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

I have always felt that documentaries are an opportunity for me to witness a world that I know nothing about.

— Chris Hegedus

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

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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

— Morgan Neville

But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the onset -…

— Errol Morris

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

— Werner Herzog

If you're not doing it for the right reasons, then you'd be dumb to be making documentaries.

— Morgan Neville

Documentary is reality. It shows the truth.

— Jackie Shroff

Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

— Frederick Wiseman