I'm not trying to acquire a reputation as serious documentary maker for its own sake.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.
I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.
You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.
It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary.
I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.
It's hard to make a living doing documentaries. Frankly, if it takes you five years to do a film, and that's the only film you're doing, you're in trouble.
I don't know if I'd mastered that documentary format, but I wanted to move on from it.
But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the onset - that you are investigating, with a camera, and the story emerges as you go along.
I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.
I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.