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I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.

Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

I grew up on films.

I've always viewed myself as a behind-the-scenes person rather than in front of the camera.

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

I came out of independent film, that's my roots.

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