Documentaries Quote by Robert Greene

I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.

— Michael Pitt

That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

— J. C. Chandor

I really admire visual storytelling that shows you what's happening, instead of tells you what's happening. I think it really forces the filmmaking to…

— John Kahrs

Making a movie is trying to capture moments of true reality.

— Juan Diego Solanas

If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as…

— Mark Duplass

I love the unexpected and I think that's why documentary is an attractive genre to me because you don't know where it's going to…

— Seth Gordon

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to…

— Ava DuVernay

You can't really imagine every moment of a movie in the same way that you wouldn't expect a novelist to envision every sentence of…

— Wayne Coyne

We filmmakers are control freaks. For us, it's about bending the elements of a story into existence.

— Richard Linklater

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.

— Bryan Singer

“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The…

— Stanley Kubrick

The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when…

— Annette Bening