“Almost all my documentaries are not really documentaries. Number one, they’re just movies; number two, many of them are feature films in disguise. I’m not a fly on the wall. That would be utterly boring. I’m a filmmaker. I create films. I stylise them, I narrate them, I captivate an audience, I do everything a director should do.”
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