I'm not a journalist who goes out and gets information and then puts it into a story. To me, a documentary is just using real people and events to tell a story. I still write a script of how I want it to go and hope I can steer it, through directing, the way I want it to go. I'm a very hands-on director. I know the movie I want to make when I start out.
Film is too expensive to just go in and roll like a fly on the wall.
While editing is a huge part of the film, I'm not someone who wants to find the movie in the process of editing. I do not lead a very relaxed life now. Not tremendously, but to a point. I also hear that the film circulates through frat houses at colleges all over the country, and people tell me that this college or that one makes the pledges watch the film and recite lines from it while they're hazing them. I'm not saying that's a good thing at all, but apparently they don't see the damage in it.