Difficult Quote by Rod Serling

You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has…

— Imogen Cunningham

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

— Gus Van Sant

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

— Leslie Cockburn

Bizarrely funny... Rarely is a documentary as well attuned to its subject as Howard Brookner's BURROUGHS, which captures as much about the life, work…

— Janet Maslin

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads…

— William Shatner

There's something about the lack of certainty with a documentary, which is exhausting if you do three in a row. It's nerve-wracking.

— Kevin Macdonald

Someone said something really interesting the other day they said, "Even documentaries aren't what happened," you know there's a huge jump between life and…

— Bruce Cohen

When I hear the word 'documentary,' I don't think certain things should be left out. You've got to keep it 100 percent as much…

— Phife Dawg

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

— Morgan Neville

“If everyone knows so much about it, why do they need to make a documentary?”

— Brigid Pasulka

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

— Sheila Nevins

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

— Hirokazu Kore-eda