Documentary Films Quotes

Documentary Films Quote of the day

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.

In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.

There's a documentary film-maker called Werner Herzog, who's a German film-maker. I really dig his stuff, I'd love to chat with him.

In documentary films, being able to be a storytelling and embrace film as an art form - while being very clearly connected in trying to help make the world a better place - is really important to me.

If I weren't making documentary films, I suppose I'd be teaching.

I am particularly pleased to see that there are so many women working in documentary film.

I don't think you make documentary films to get your country house. If you're trying to gamble on that, you've very foolish.

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

When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out.