Around the world Quote by Roger Deakins

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

— Walter Salles

For a while I had a little company and made corporate videos, did some little documentaries, almost, for court cases and mediations.

— Lulu Wang

Right at the beginning of my career, I did a couple of short films which were based on a social cause.

— Arjun Mathur

I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.

— Donnie Yen

I think I did fifteen long features and fifteen documentaries, or something like this, which is very little when you think of people making…

— Agnes Varda

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've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as…

— Errol Morris

My first narrative films developed out of a documentary process - finding someone who was willing to be filmed, watching, listening, taking copious notes…

— Debra Granik

The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found…

— Ava DuVernay

When I first started working I was lucky enough to shoot a number of films abroad so I travelled quite extensively.

— Tara Fitzgerald

After college, I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television…

— Justin Chadwick