After Quote by Soledad O'Brien

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

— Donnie Yen

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

— Walter Salles

It's hard to make a living doing documentaries. Frankly, if it takes you five years to do a film, and that's the only film…

— Alex Gibney

I think when I envisioned my documentaries, what I wanted to do when I left, I had no business doing those documentaries. I didn't…

— Chelsea Handler

I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the 'CBS Evening News.' You could see that the audiences…

— Howard Stringer

I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures.

— Morgan Neville

When I left 'American Morning' in 2007, I'd focused on doing documentaries. But I thought 'Starting Point' was a great opportunity to be involved…

— Soledad O'Brien

You have so much more time to observe and learn with a documentary because of the time between the shoots. You get a much…

— Debra Granik

It all felt like a terribly long time. It would have meant that I had to make five movies in five years and if…

— Joseph Fiennes

I love documentaries and I watch documentaries to no end.

— Michael Pena

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

Every year, I'm depressed that so few of the documentaries I've loved break through.

— David Edelstein