Werner Herzog Quotes

It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.

For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.

No one likes documentaries.

A good film is also a documentary

I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a narrative in the editing room.

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

I don't normally make documentaries. I'm a drama director. I've made a few short docs, but I don't like talking heads or 'voice of God' narrators.

I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries.

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.

Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for 'Mildred Pierce.'

Some directors want to make superhero films. That's what gets them off, and they love it, and they love sci-fi. I prefer putting my hands into non-fiction.

People look to cinema to spread the word and to tell these wonderful, outrageous stories or true-to-life documentaries.

I think it's a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema; they're, in fact, ontological opposites. In Direct Cinema, we create a fictional reality with characters and pretend we're not that.

There is a porous membrane between a documentary that doesn't use interviews and what you would call a neorealist hybrid film.

I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been on the field.

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as you can get in a narrative form.

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.

People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.