It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.

I've discovered I can't make a film about people I dislike.

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

Traveling around the world during the World Cup in 2006, I was thinking, 'Wow, this is such an incredible and global event.'

I'm interested in characters that are complex people.

If you can laugh with somebody and relate to somebody, it becomes harder to dehumanize them. I think that most of what we are constantly bombarded with in terms of media leads you to a creation of 'the Other' and a dehumanization of 'the Other,' and it's very much an us-versus-them conversation.