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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.
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.
Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.
I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.
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