Documentary Films Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

I'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary, even if I don't have the full funding yet. So you have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter.

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.

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