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.

The biggest misconception about me and my work is that I only make political films denouncing human-rights atrocities, even though all of my films are about people fighting for their rights and their quest for justice. My films aren't depressing, are very human, and always offer a way forward.

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'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.

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

If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder.

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.