Cinema Quote by Philip Seymour Hoffman

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad…

— Abbas Kiarostami

We exaggerate the difference between documentary and fiction. I think that on some level a fiction film is also a documentary on the actors.…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film…

— Cate Blanchett

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have…

— Jean-Luc Godard

It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.

— Werner Herzog

For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.

— Ira Sachs

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a…

— Jonathan Demme

Most people look at a feature film and say, "It's just a movie." For me there is no border or wall between fiction and…

— Mano Khalil

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

I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fiction…

— John Hyams

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

— Gaspar Noe

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

— Mike Mills