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One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.

This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director.

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

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.

Movies, to a large extent, stand or fall on the strength of their scripts. But a documentary is a collection of found objects: fragments you've collected, accidents of interview and happenstance, pieces of stock footage that surface in the course of six to nine months of research and production.

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary film was.