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I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.

Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.

Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.

You have these relationships with people that you care about, but I also try to stick to my job as filmmaker and be fair and truthful about what I saw and my experience of the people, hopefully informed by a deep understanding of them.