As I get older, I'm looking more and more for films that are actually about something rather than just narrative vehicles.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.
I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.
I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
I'd love to do action-y types of films; you know, as long as they're good stories.
I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.
Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.
I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.
I'm interested in making films that make people think.
The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.