Rachel Kamerman
Documentary Magazine, Spring 2011

To insist on literal truth at every turn in a documentary would rob a filmmaker of his or her tools to contextualize information and character. Simple omission—filtering the flow of human information to extract the minerals of a story's Essential Truth—is invaluable.

The documentary filmmaker in his or her element is still a storyteller, albeit one who deals in the real.

Audiences walk away from documentaries remembering the things that made them cry, made them laugh, made them think, made them relate. They do not walk away admiring the integrity of the process.