
“In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.”
Anand Patwardhan, the Michael Moore of India -Interview UC Berkeley News http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/10/13_patwardhan.shtml (October 13, 2004)
“In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.”
“People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries."”
In Bergen Filmklub http://www.bergen-filmklubb.no/Arkiv/LENGRE_ARTIKLER/VAaREN_2005/DEREK_JARMAN.html
Breaking Through Power (2016)
As quoted in Hitchcock (revised edition 1984) by François Truffaut with the collaboration of Helen G. Scott, p. 102.
"No one to be Missed" in Off Screen https://offscreen.com/view/zhang_yimou (April 1999)
On The Blue Light: Partly quoted in: Leni Riefenstahl (1992) The sieve of time: the memoirs of Leni Riefenstahl. p. 210
An exclamation Ellsberg made to a fellow government official, after they both watched the film Dr. Strangelove.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/movies/10kapl.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0