I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new facts and perspectives - each project can involve years of research.

We don't want to duplicate our efforts with the dollars each of our budgets have. We want to expand that story and hopefully cover all points in doing it at different sites.

No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.

I made a number of pictures, strictly C-pictures that were done on small budgets with a crackerjack director and actor who's now dead, Hugo Haas.

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.