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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.

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

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

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