Documentaries Quote by Pirjo Honkasalo

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

— Walter Salles

Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident, though not…

— Jonathan Raymond

Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it, even though…

— Andrew Lam

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that…

— Heather O'Neill

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with…

— Jonathan Demme

Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.

— Charles Bock

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

— Henry Rollins

Fiction is my deepest love, but I love journalism, too. It keeps me thinking vigorously, and it reminds me that there is a world…

— Jennifer Egan

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

— Lucy Walker

When I was a child, there was very little money, so I've always been concerned for my financial security, which has meant that finding…

— Hilary Mantel

A publisher friend of mine suggested that I write a book about my grandfather, who had just died. I had nothing else to fill…

— Kevin Macdonald

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