We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.

I felt like any individual's recovery was more important than the film I was making. And I actually felt that my presence was a form of witness that communicated to the people I was following that their lives mattered.

In documentary you sometimes see the tyranny of the linear, but what I've noticed in the last ten years in narrative film is the tyranny of the non-linear.

We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.

If I weren't making documentary films, I suppose I'd be teaching.

It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.

If you just think about the difficulty you'll never get anywhere.