Documentary Quote by Vivek Oberoi

This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding…

— Ben Edwards

Thhe essence of documentary filmmaking is how you manipulate the material to create an emotional impact, as opposed to just delivering information.

— Richard Ray Perez

I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction. If you acknowledge that filming…

— Joshua Oppenheimer

I never aspire to be objective because I don't believe in objectivity. It's important to be truthful, and it's important to make sure that…

— Rory Kennedy

The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject.

— Ben Edwards

There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant…

— Ben Edwards

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

People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about.…

— Peter Guber

Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror,…

— Allan Sekula

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries…

— Michael Apted

To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the significance underlying…

— Paul Rotha

At some point during the filmmaking process, you lose objectivity, and you need the eyes of someone who understands the process and has been…

— Sydney Pollack