About Quote by Soledad O'Brien

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

— Leslie Cockburn

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

The nice thing about a documentary, I think, is that so much of it is editing, too. You sort of get to keep making…

— Gillian Jacobs

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

The magic of documentary is that I keep being surprised and amazed by the things I film.

— Kim Longinotto

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

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

I love documentaries. I love the format. I've been doing them for a long time.

— Morgan Neville

I do really enjoy watching documentaries because it's such an interesting foray into other people's lives.

— Ego Nwodim

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

— Kevin Macdonald

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

I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the…

— Spike Jonze