The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up.

To strip yourself from a lot of the things around you that make you comfortable is a really challenging thing that most of us don't do or don't get a chance to do.

I'm not somebody who comes in with a whole outline, and says, "Here's the movie we're going to make." That's not what a documentary is for me. I think a documentary is about capturing events as they unfold in real time.

I don't think Muslims do hate America. I think that's what we hear and that's what we believe. I don't think that's true.

I don't go into a movie with preconceived notions of where I want things to go.

Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.

It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.