I believe I take action based on conscious thought. However, this conscious thought is often deceptive or at minimum incomplete. It is in the act of doing that my subconscious asserts itself. For me this is creativity. The thought always existed ( in fact it's argued that all our thoughts are a result of our species evolutionary experiences but I don't think this explains creativity) but at a particular time, in a unique fashion something is created that was previously unknowable by the conscious mind. For example my initial reason for making a documentary was to tell the story of activists I had gotten to know over the years. As I moved through the process I began to realize (with the help of Tomas Leach in our 1:1 interview) that it went much deeper, much more personal. Why did I experience, since my earliest memories, the world differently than most around me? Caring for the other, feeling a deep psychic pain when witnessing injustice. My film is born out of my subconscious as an attempt to answer that question for myself.