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I Always Say Be Humble But Be Firm. Humility And Openness Are The Key To Success Without Compromising Your Beliefs.

Obviously You Have A Responsibility - One Would Like To Think There Is Such A Thing As Ethics In Filmmaking.

Theres Something Unique About The United States, A Sense Of Individual Rights And Freedoms, And A Sense Of Social And Civic Responsibility That We Contributed To So Much Of The World. We Lost That Mission In The 1980s And 1990s, When We Entered A Gilded Age, And The Culture Of Individualism Became A Culture Of Avarice.

Docs Are More Exhausting Because Of The Physical Labor That's Required. Feature Filmmaking Is More Exhausting Because Of Politics And The Bullshit. You Get To The Point Of Rolling Film And Until You Lock Picture It's One Political Game After Another. They're Both Struggles For Survival. They Are Two Different Worlds.

At Times Doc Filmmaking Feels More Rewarding Creatively. Because You Are Creating Something Out Of Pure Cinema - Instead Of Narrative Cinema, Where You've Got A Script And A Cast And You Build From Your Foundation, Whereas In Documentary, You're Building Out Of Chaos.