The documentaries I made were never normal documentaries. They were about subjects I was obsessed with, and I suppose I thought I could sculpt them. What I think I do with my fiction is the same.
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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.
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.
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.
You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
I don't normally make documentaries. I'm a drama director. I've made a few short docs, but I don't like talking heads or 'voice of God' narrators.
Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.
Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.
You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.
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