I didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.
The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.
To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.
Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.
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.
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.
I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.