Cinema Quote by Tony Kaye

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

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

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

— Shoojit Sircar

I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I had trouble…

— Errol Morris

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

For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.

— Ira Sachs

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 think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

— Jamie Bell

Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a language, that…

— Mano Khalil

I was a documentary film-maker for 26 years before I became a full time actor.

— Suhasini Mulay

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