My advice to emerging documentary filmmakers would be: try to find other people, a group, a cooperative that you can work with. Filmmaking is hard and lonely and decidedly unglamorous. Find like-minded souls and share the joy and the misery.

My advice to emerging documentary filmmakers would be: try to find other people, a group, a cooperative that you can work with. Filmmaking is hard and lonely and decidedly unglamorous. Find like-minded souls and share the joy and the misery.

Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling.

The digital revolution has had a democratizing effect. Now anyone can be a filmmaker, but to be a good filmmaker is as hard as it ever was.

I believe that those who believe in the power of human rights must find new ways to address economic injustice - and on a scale commensurate with the millions of people around the world that are mired in poverty.

Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I tell.

Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.