I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up documentary journalism.
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I'm not one of those people who sees documentaries as a stepping stone to doing fiction. I love documentaries and watch tons of documentaries. But, I like fiction films a lot, too.
It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
With fiction, you can take something that bothers you, or that you don't have in clear focus, and you can put it under as much stress as you want. Really get underneath the skin. With nonfiction, you're restricted to what happened.
Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.
The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.
You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.
There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.
It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.
Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.