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.
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That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think.
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.
Most fiction comes from your experience.
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.
Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.
I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.
The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.
Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident, though not entirely bizarre, either, as I have done some work in film before, and even directed a ridiculous, cable-access feature back in my 20s.
I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.