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.

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

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

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.

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.

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