Curiosity Quote by Spike Jonze

With documentaries, you go in with an open-mind but knowing what you want.

— Chris Metzler

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

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

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

In documentaries, the process is that you film a lot of things, and out of what you've shot, something organically reveals itself, and there's…

— Max Joseph

I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.

— Kevin Macdonald

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

— Leslie Cockburn

What's great about documentary genre, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot…

— Errol Morris

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

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

Too many documentaries are intellectual exercises. I want documentaries to be alive.

— Davis Guggenheim

You kind of form a bond with your subjects, in a way. You're in it together. To a degree that people don't realize, documentary…

— Steve James