Cause a little trouble. It’s good for you.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.

I'm somebody who works within Cambodia, with Cambodians. I work alongside the artists and society to work from within, so that is the focus, and from that I hope everybody who believes in democracy, in certain freedoms, will get louder, will grow their voices.

It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria.

The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity. You know what you live for and what matters.

I wanna better understand the world I live in, and I wanna be able to learn how to be more effective... I wanna learn and I wanna listen.