Case Quote by Rithy Panh

I always tell aspiring documentary filmmakers, 'You have to go into it because you love it; if you go into it for the money,…

— Morgan Neville

I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.

— Kevin Macdonald

I prefer doing feature films.

— Taraji P. Henson

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have…

— Werner Herzog

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

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries…

— Michael Apted

One day I decided to move towards documentaries or to move to more directing in documentaries at this point in my career. Why documentaries?…

— Dror Moreh

In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a…

— Garth Stein

My background is sociology. Combined with my graphic approach, if I could do some film projects, I think I'd be very good at making…

— David Carson

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

— Dennis Hopper

When I think about the new film, I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the…

— Robert Greene

The main reason why I'm a documentary filmmaker is the power of the medium. The most powerful films I've seen have been documentaries. Of…

— Richard Ray Perez