Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.