How to Be a Successful Documentary Filmmaker

Hans Zimmer says he always starts by posing a question. That's Jordan Peterson's thing too that once you have a question, then you have a reason to go after it. So yeah, that's really cool. And so your process is then you take big chunks of stuff and line it up along your timeline and then start trimming away. Is it sort of like Michelangelo when he carves away everything that isn't?