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Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.

For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.

I think that people who make films and think they're changing the world are sorely mistaken. If that really is your goal, there are far better ways to do it. I'm making politically observant films for audiences.

What's great about documentary, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of 'documentary.'

I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishing that the reality I was filming would conform to my narrative propriety. But you can't control it.

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.