Experience Quote by Roger Deakins

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

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

Documentary films have always been my passion, I have done documentaries.

— Shoojit Sircar

Documentaries were necessary for my growth as a person. I grew up very sheltered and it was a form of expressing myself.

— Kareem Mortimer

I always wanted to be in movies, but I never thought that in a million years there would be a documentary about my life.

— Gigi Gorgeous

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

— Walter Salles

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

— Griffin Dunne

Documentary film is the one place that our people can speak for themselves. I feel that the documentaries that I've been working on have…

— Alanis Obomsawin

Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all…

— Wim Wenders

I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form…

— Barry Levinson

A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.

— Rudolf Arnheim

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