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.

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

Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult.

When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out.

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.

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.

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