Admired Quote by Walter Salles

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with…

— Jonathan Demme

I have always felt that documentaries are an opportunity for me to witness a world that I know nothing about.

— Chris Hegedus

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

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

— Kevin Macdonald

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad…

— Abbas Kiarostami

In documentary, you are sometimes burdened, or you feel very responsible for dealing with - I want to say - more complicated themes. Fiction…

— Debra Granik

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

— Chris Metzler

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

— Gaspar Noe

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting…

— Ken Burns

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

— Griffin Dunne

I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what…

— Robert Greene

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