Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
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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.
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.
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.
Documentaries are a form of journalism.
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.
You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.
This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director.
For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.
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.