Noun
a movie that shows ordinary people in actual activities without being controlled by a director
Source: WordNetFilmmakers of Cinema Verité resemble tourists who take pictures amid ancient ruins of facts. Werner Herzog
By dint of declaration the so-called Cinema Verité is devoid of verité. It reaches a merely superficial truth, the truth of accountants. Werner Herzog
Cinema Verité confounds fact and truth, and thus plows only stones. And yet, facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. Werner Herzog
Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. Crispin Glover
My primary concept in approaching the production of THX 1138 was to make a kind of cinema verité film of the future - something that would look like a documentary crew had made a film about some character in a time yet to come. George Lucas
I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form. George Hickenlooper