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

Film is something I've always loved since I was very young. In fact, I actually wanted to study to be a filmmaker when I was younger.

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

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary 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.

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well.

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.