I started as a documentary maker, and they're my first love.

With fiction, I've grown to really love the challenge of lying, the challenge of telling a good tale that isn't truthful, and working with performers is endlessly fascinating. You know, learning what a good performance is, how to get a good performance, how much or how little you need to create emotion or to create character.

There's something about the lack of certainty with a documentary, which is exhausting if you do three in a row. It's nerve-wracking.

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