Country Quote by Yance Ford

With newspapers cutting foreign bureaus and budgets shrinking for long-form, investigative journalism, documentary filmmakers are often filling a void nowadays in the media landscape…

— Matthew Heineman

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

Critics can say what they like about the films, but very often, there's a certain expectation of documentaries that they're supposed to be like…

— Alex Gibney

Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged -…

— Olivia Wilde

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

— Naomi Wolf

There are so many talented filmmakers, but they find it difficult to put their content out to the viewer.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

A good film is also a documentary

— Eric Rohmer

Good filmmakers actually are people who have lived life, who have something to say, who have stories to tell. People who fall, perhaps make…

— Juliet Asante

Some filmmakers make films to please themselves and a handful of critics, so they get 5-star reviews but their films don't run at the…

— Sajid Khan

Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

— Bruce Jackson

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

There are certain filmmakers who look at the kind of work you have been a part of or if you come with a baggage…

— Vaani Kapoor